Ethel merman

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

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

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.

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.

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.

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.