Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

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

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

The happiest people are not those who have the best things, but those who enjoy the life and get the most of it with what they have.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night, " he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

As a fan, you want to be able to go to a football game, you want to feel secure, you want to be able to just watch the game, root for your team, and that's the way it should be.

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.