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

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

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

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

Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.

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

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.