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

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

A laugh a day does you more good than an apple – read a humours book ...

T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

My mother made us eat all sorts of vitamins and supplements, until one day I nearly choked on part of The Sunday Times.

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.