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

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

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

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

When you're in touch with your heart, you feel a connection with others and you have access to your wisdom.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem.

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.