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

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

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.

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

Who's happy these days?

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

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret