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

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 have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint

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

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.

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most