Sophie Tucker

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

— Sophie Tucker

I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number,…

— Sophie Tucker

Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes…

— Sophie Tucker

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

— Sophie Tucker

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

— Sophie Tucker

Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was…

— Sophie Tucker

It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

— Sophie Tucker

Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and…

— Sophie Tucker

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you…

— Sophie Tucker

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55…

— Sophie Tucker

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

— Sophie Tucker

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55…

— Sophie Tucker

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents; from 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good…

— Sophie Tucker

Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool,…

— Sophie Tucker

“From birth to age eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five…

— Sophie Tucker

The key to longevity: keep breathing.

— Sophie Tucker

“ When a girl is seventeen she needs good parents. When she's twenty-five she needs a pretty face and figure. When she's…

— Sophie Tucker