Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them
There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.
Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician