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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.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Giving Up #Thinking #Giving
“I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Kitchen #Tea #Cups
“Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them”
-- Ethel Merman

#Laughing #Audience
“I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes”
-- Ethel Merman

#Mistake #My Mistakes
“There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions”
-- Ethel Merman

#Player #Discipline #Invention
“Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Broadway #Very Good
“I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Long #Notes
“I take a breath when I have to.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Breathing
“At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Junk #Tables #Fleas
“Everything's coming up roses - for me.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Valentine #Rose
“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”
-- Ethel Merman

#Stars #Broadway #Vaudeville
“The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now”
-- Ethel Merman

#Littles #Way #Used
“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”
-- Ethel Merman

#Song #Firsts #Lucky
“I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Film #Performances #Persons
“Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me”
-- Ethel Merman

#Anything Goes #Four
“Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most”
-- Ethel Merman

#War #Hero #President
“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?”
-- Ethel Merman

#Differences #Long #Parent
“[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Art #Entertainment
“Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Mom #Business #Views
“Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Hockey #Fire #Ice
“I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Business #Thinking #Should
“As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand”
-- Ethel Merman

#Drama #Average #Turns
“Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver”
-- Ethel Merman

#Attention
“I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Halloween #Today #Theater
“Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Heart #Voice #Legends
“Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Past #Squares #Years
“My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Running #Brother #Careers
“When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Sometimes #Conflict #Corny
“Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”
-- Ethel Merman

#Christmas #Wedding #Couple
“I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time”
-- Ethel Merman

#Honored

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