"Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and wo..." — Gracie Allen

I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won't ring true. No matter what the script says, there's no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There's no make-believe. It's for real.

The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.