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

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.'

Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.

I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

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.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.