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

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

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

A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

There is less in this than meets the eye.