Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

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

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

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.

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

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be