Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing.

I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.

Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Life's a very funny proposition after all.

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

I rely a great deal on animal instincts.

The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.