Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.