Ethel Merman Quotes
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When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
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[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.
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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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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me
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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've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame
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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 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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I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.
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Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most
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I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird
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I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes
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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 have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions
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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?'
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Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.
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Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
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Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
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Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret
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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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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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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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Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.
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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.
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When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist
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Who's happy these days?
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I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano
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