110 Quotes by Ethel Merman

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

Everything’s coming up roses – for me.

Be yourself – it’s the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

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.

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

I work as often as I want and yet I’m free as a bird.

I’ve made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character – the professional brassy dame.

I wouldn’t trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they’d be up here on stage and I’d be out there watching them.