Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.
I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.