Dorothy Kilgallen Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Believe it or not, it is possible to go to church and the Stork Club on the same day.

Connie Bennett is afraid of crowds. And a lot of people are afraid of Connie Bennett.

Dad is a simple person and he scales everything down to fundamentals, both physical and spiritual.

Dick and I were at the Colony and the Copa last night, and we were at El Morocco two nights ago.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Everything I need is right here in this extraordinary purse.

Everything is going fine. I'm making my own blood again.

Friends of the late John Garfield are desperately trying to halt the plans of a leftist group to stage a memorial to him and Canada Lee.

Grace Kelly, the pert video actress, doesn't really have to work that hard. Her dad's a millionaire Philadelphia builder.

Her life was a suicide note. It didn't have to happen. When I first heard Marilyn was dead I said, It can't be true.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

I do not think What's My Line should be classed with the rigged shows as it has been by a local television critic.

I don't know anything about money. You'll have to talk to my husband about that.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

I get most of my stuff during the day. People seem to know the days I'm writing a news column and call me with items.

I guess I've got a little of the Berkeley Square in me.

I have a terrible confession to make. A simply awful thing has happened to me. I've come to love Johnnie Ray's record, Please Mr. Sun.

I never met anyone who couldn't use five bucks. Please take it.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

I was itching to help hand out coffee and carry trays to the guards. I knew this was the most satisfying form of war work I'd seen yet.

I'm going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century.

I'm going to have the heel of the rye bread and half a glass of beer with a lot of ice in it.

I'm going to have to leave the show. My mother told me that I photograph badly.

I'm off to race around the world-a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

I'm tired of being the smartest person on the entire panel.

I've been working hard since I was 17 years old to get where I am now, and although the situation slows me down, I'm grateful.

If anybody ever asks me if I've seen a catacomb, I can say yes.

If I'm in any way hurting the show, drop me. Get me off.

If Johnnie doesn't come back to me I'm going to kill myself. I won't live without him.

If this were my car, I'd have the chauffeur drive me right to my aisle seat.

Intelligence agencies will be watching us. We'll have to be very careful.

It has all the ingredients of what in the newspaper business we call a good murder.

Johnny Ray is such a smash in this current Broadway engagement, he's been signed for the Tropicana in Las Vegas!

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Marilyn Monroe's health must be improving. She's been attending select Hollywood parties and has become the talk of the town again.

Most people I know that fight are purely selfish.

Mother wanted me to be an English teacher.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

My father was always tossing things into a suitcase and taking a train or a plane to some place where a story was breaking.

Our children are not reduced to bitterness because their parents know how to dance.

People have told me that I remind them of a certain movie star. Can you guess which one?

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip rode up Broadway receiving a soggy welcome from the city of New York.

Red Channels may have made some mistakes in linking innocent persons with communism. And this, if so, is deplorable.

Reporters for a day usually have their stories half written before they get to the scene.

Simone Simon should save a little pep for the camera. Even then she would be the most difficult star in the business.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

The Cub Room is where we sit most of the time. It's a sort of club where you see the most celebrities. That's where most of the interesting people go.

The family of a young society girl is having her put in a sanitarium. They just discovered she was a reefer addict.

The lines of decadence are not yet too deeply etched in our faces.

The New York of those days was a place in which external events were few and unexciting, and little girls were mostly to be happy at home.

The newspapers will never print a real story behind a recent show business marriage crash. It was a Well of Loneliness theme.

The Presidential car was moving at about eight miles an hour when the fatal shots were fired.

They probably take their little candid snaps. Now they have cameras the size of cigarette lighters. They can take pictures under all circumstances.

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

What was possible 10 years ago in this town is no longer possible.

When I'm getting dressed Mommy always goes through my bag and cleans it out and prepares it for the day.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

Will the Errol Flynn scandal result in a revision of all morality clauses in film contracts?

You know the mental block I have about filling out forms, darling.

You're late and just to keep your record straight, you ought to make up that lost time.