"Codeine...bourbon..." (Tallulah Bankhead's last words) |
(on seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. |
(on why she called everyone "darling") Because all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. Once I introduced a friend of mine as 'Martini'. Her name was actually 'Olive'. |
Acting is a form of confusion. |
Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years. |
Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know-I've been using it for years. |
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once |
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once |
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. |
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. |
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. |
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. |
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. |
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. |
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. |