"Hello, daaaahling."

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

"My father warned me about men and booze," she said, "but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine."

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

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

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."

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

As to why she called everyone "dahling": "Because all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once intoduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive."

"I Was there in the South of France When Zelda (Fitzgerald), poor darling, went off her head. She had gone into a flower shop and suddenly for her all the flowers had faces. Of course, some flowers, such as pansies, do have faces."

Earl Wilson: "Have you ever been mistaken for a man on the telephone?" Tallulah "No, have you?"

"Never practice two vices at once. "

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

"Acting is a form of confusion."

"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

To a young actress: "Oh , my Gawd, cranberry Juice! When I was 16, dahling, I had a shoebox full of cocaine."

"Whats the matter, dahling? Don't you recognize me with my clothes on?"

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

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

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