Ethel Merman Quotes

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• Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
• Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them
• I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time
• I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of…
• I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes
• In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me
• I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right…
• 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
• Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret
• I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old
• Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver
• As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand
• 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…
• The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now
• 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…
• Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist
• Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me
• Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most
• 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…
• 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…

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