[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

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

I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.