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.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

I take a breath when I have to.

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

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.

You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.