My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.

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

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

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

[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.

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