My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

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

It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

The solar system is off center and consequently man is too ...

Now is the time when your action is practice.

I love running and I will always run.

Just know that someone out there always has it worst, and you should try to realize that there really is a lot to look forward to

The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

Just to be involved in anything Disney, whether it's 'Avengers Assemble' or 'Planes' or straight-to-dvd work, it's great.