I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

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

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

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.

[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.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.