Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

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

Keep working when grace abound.

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.

Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

Anybody that believes that Adrian Grenier's name is really Vince should probably watch less TV.

What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?