I take a breath when I have to.

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

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.

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.

Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

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