I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

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

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've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

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

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

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

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

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

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

Never allow anyone to break your bond of love.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.

A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.