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

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

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.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me

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

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