Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

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

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

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

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

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

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret