Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

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

There is less in this than meets the eye.