I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don’t have time.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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.
If I were well behaved, I’d die of boredom.
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.
They aren’t making mirrors like they use to.
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don’t understand.
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah’s husband. It’s tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn’t boring.
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
Don’t think this has taught me a lesson !
I’ve had a man and I’ve had a woman, and there’s got to be something better.
My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work – the night watchman.
For acting, darlings, is the world’s most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
They say it’s the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I’m gonna remember even if I don’t write it down.
Cocaine isn’t habit forming. I should know, I’ve been using it for years.