I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist