I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.
[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.
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 remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the booth and said to the lady in the next stall, 'I beg your pardon, do you happen to have any toilet tissue in there?' The lady said no. So Tallulah said, 'Well, then, dahling, do you have two fives for a ten?'
I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.
Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them
When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this dialogue, we have this very powerful beautiful, eclectic, diary, or narration of being in America, being American, participating in America, becoming more of America and also as an American, the American creative spirit, which is quite interesting. Our composers and poets have spent more time writing and thinking and speaking out of what it means to be a composer or poet as well as to be an American, or a composer or poet In America; both relationships.
To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.