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

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

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

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.

I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.