Top 50 Quotes by Ethel Merman

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.

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

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

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.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.

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

I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint.

Who's happy these days?

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.