Ethel Merman Quotes

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

Ethel Merman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1908 - February 15, 1984

Topics

MomWillWayAlwaysPopBeloved

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Jennifer Lopez

ChangeCharacterWalkImaginationMe

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

John Lydon

GodLimitsCreationTakeBrainsUs

However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.

Rudolf Steiner

BattlePersonHimTalentsExistence

I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

KidBeenWeirdoSince

I have some tremendous, tremendously loving, generous friends all over the world.

Michael Keaton

WorldFriendsLovingOverGenerous

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Lord Byron

FameFollyMartyrdomLoves

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill - he was an alcoholic - so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn't know how to get it out.

Diane Kruger

FatherSchoolAngryMeSmallKnow

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Donald Johanson

CommitmentYouAnythingSuccessful

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.

Brett Hull

WordsMeanFavoriteWordMany

My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'

Bruce Vilanch

PerformanceFatYouKnowSaidWhy

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

Arthur Miller

DayYouFindOne DaySomething

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

Marlee Matlin

ChildrenSchoolSupportTryingFour

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