Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most
The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.
I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old
[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.
Who's happy these days?
I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me
I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals
I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird
Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be
I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret
Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician
Everything's coming up roses - for me.
I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.
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
I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?
I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand
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