Acting is a form of confession.
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.
Dahling Congressman Boykin: 10 AM is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman.
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'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
There is less in this than meets the eye.
They made me sound as if I'd been castrated.
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah starred in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth.
Tallulah nearly died following a 5-hour emergency hysterectomy for an advanced case of gonorrhea in 1933.
Tallulah was an open bisexual.
Tallulah became Paramount Pictures' Next Marlene Dietrich in 1931.
Tallulah first appeared in a non-speaking role in The Squad Farm.
Tallulah spent a year at a Catholic convent school.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.