I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time

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

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

No one controls who we turn into but us.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

There isn't a problem on this earth that a doughnut cannot make better.

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.