110 Quotes by Ethel Merman

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.

I wouldn’t change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.

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 musicals.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn’t appeal to me.

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.

Who’s happy these days?

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.