"To look back is to relax one's vigil."

“I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.”

“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”

“'In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.”

“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.”

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”

“Miss Bankhead isn't well enough known nationally to warrant my imitating her.”