I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that…

- Sophie Tucker

I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way…

- Sophie Tucker

Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to he…

- Sophie Tucker

It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

- Sophie Tucker

Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes you one of thos…

- Sophie Tucker

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

- Sophie Tucker

Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs …

- Sophie Tucker

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

- Sophie Tucker

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

- Sophie Tucker