[to theatrical producer Leonard Sillman, after he asked her to
appear on Broadway in the 1960s] Are you kidding? I couldn't act even when I was a movie star.
[In a letter to sister Norma Talmadge, who was trying to keep
her career going in talkies after Constance had retired] Quit
pressing your luck, baby. The critics can't knock those trust funds
Mama set up for us.