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.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

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

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

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

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