I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

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

The infinite bears no definition

This is everything I thought I didn't want. Or didn't need. But I'm here now and it's everything I need and the only thing I want.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

High expectations don't bother me at all.

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.