In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

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

I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.