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

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

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me

Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

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