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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair.

A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.

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'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

There's less here than meets the eye.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!

There is less in this than meets the eye.

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

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

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

I have three phobias ... : I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

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.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

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.

Acting is a form of confusion.

Acting is a form of confession.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

There have only been two geniuses in the world - Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.

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

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Codeine . . . bourbon.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

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

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.