[cole Porter] Sang Like A

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 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.

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 Work As Often As I Want And Yet I'm Free As A Bird

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.