My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

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

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

I walked when I should have runI ran when I should have walkedAnd don't I know it, don't I know it

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

Address the people you seek, and them only

I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.