Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

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

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

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

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

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

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

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 can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

A true innovator does best, what he doesn't know best.

If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

I will surrender to the moment today.

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.