 Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. Topics: Funny |
| Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living. |
| 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. |
| I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures. |
| At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first. |
| I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast. |
| If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill. |
| My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be. |
| I take a breath when I have to. |
| Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me. |
| Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them. |
| I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals. |
| I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame. |
| I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes. |
| Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway. |
| When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest. |
| I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird. |
| In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me. |
| When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. |
| I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old. |
