I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast..

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else..

You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best..

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody..

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these thing….

I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the boot….

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice..

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square..

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway..

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first..

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 am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words..

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

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..

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales..

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank..