Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

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

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.