If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

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'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.