When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest

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

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

Live life as if today is your last day living. :-)

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.