“It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count …” — Tallulah Bankhead

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.

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

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

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