Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
I take a breath when I have to.
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've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
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.
I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
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 wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
Everything's coming up roses - for me.
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
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.
I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.
