I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

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

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

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.