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

I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

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

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

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