The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

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

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

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

[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.

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.'