I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

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

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.

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.

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

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

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