[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working.…

- Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

- Betty Comden

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

- Betty Comden

There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explai…

- Betty Comden

We never thought we were. That's the important part.

- Betty Comden

Broadway's not what it used to be.

- Betty Comden

The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

- Betty Comden