In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

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

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

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

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

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.