I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.