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

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

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

[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.

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.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.