Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.

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

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

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