I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.