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

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

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

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

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

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.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.