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

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

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

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

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

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time