Ethel Merman Quotes
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Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.
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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?
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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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I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
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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.
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My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
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If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.
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Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
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Who's happy these days?
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I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
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My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
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I told her that there was something about Christmas carols that always brought tears to my eyes. I added that I also cry at weddings. To me weddings are very solemn occasions. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
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Cole Porter sang like a hinge.
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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
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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.
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Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
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I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.
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I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
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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.
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The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.
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I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.