When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest

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

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

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

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

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.

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most