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 a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

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

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

Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mnogo iskustva.

It was another dark and windy night. Like so many others.

we need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken

If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.

People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.

We all get 24 hours a day... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.