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

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

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

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

I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint

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