Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

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

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

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

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.