I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

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

My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.

We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.

Use minds to solve problems, not lies and bullets.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.