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.
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.
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.
Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.
Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
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.
