110 Quotes by Ethel Merman

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

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

You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

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

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.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame