Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to Broadway.

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 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.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

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