The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

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

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

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me

You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.