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.

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.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

If he'd been around 75 years ago, George Gershwin would have written about him 'the way you wear your hat, the way you raise your knee.'

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