Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

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.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician

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

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

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

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.