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

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

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

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

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.