I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

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

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.