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

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

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

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

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

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.