In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated.

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.