Top 73 Merman Quotes
#1. Great seaweed! She thought. What possessed me to bite that poor merman's arm? Gahhh. One kiss and I'm a - a flesh-eating monster? Seriously?
Brenda Pandos
#2. Yep. His epic good looks without succumbing to the adorable label had made him a man-unicorn in my mind. Or a merman. Or a Loch Ness Monstman. He was a mystical creature.
Penny Reid
#3. Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was
except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.
Bob Fosse
#4. Under the sea, the merman feast on starfish soup and all the serving men are crabs.
George R R Martin
#5. 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.
Ethel Merman
#6. The cut, which the merman had placed on my hip, was shimmering with a soft, almost transparent, lavender glow. Like a stained-glass window, it refracted any light that touched it into lavender shimmers.
Meaghan Rauscher
#7. I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
Beth Ditto
#8. So the merman cannot belong to Agnes unless, after having made the infinite movement, the movement of repentance, he makes still one more movement by virtue of the absurd.
Soren Kierkegaard
#9. But it hadn't just been Sebastian who had been watching me. Rather, it had been tribes of merman and mermaids, who had been curious about this newcomer in town that could outswim any school of small fish.
Keira D. Skye
#10. I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers ...
David Foster Wallace
#11. If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman.
Debbie Reynolds
#12. Compared to me, everyone has normal relationships.'
Sera laughed. 'Right. Especially me. I'm the queen of normal relationships. The merman I love is about to marry someone else. We have to pretend to hate each other. And his future wife is trying to kill me. Totally normal.
Jennifer Donnelly
#13. The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
Nancy Allen
#14. You were given a task by the Lord and Lady of High Heaven themselves. Quit now, and forsake all Grens who care for peace. Rise, and create a legend that will live on longer than you. Make your choice, Nicholes Merman. Rise or fall.
Ethan Melman
#15. Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
Bruce Vilanch
#16. So does that mean we get Eric, too?" Willa said. "Because Eric is definitely hot, and if I had my choice I'd take Eric over some white-haired king merman any day.
Ridley Pearson
#17. Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince
#18. 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.
Ethel Merman
#19. Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
Ethel Merman
#20. Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
Ethel Merman
#21. In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.
Ethel Merman
#22. I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
Ethel Merman
#23. There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Ethel Merman
#24. 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.
Ethel Merman
#25. Maybe he's an exotic dancer. He must be used to walking around with that monstrosity dangling like that. Stop looking at it.
Monica La Porta
#26. When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
Ethel Merman
#27. My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
Ethel Merman
#28. Be yourself
it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.
Ethel Merman
#30. If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.
Ethel Merman
#31. He looked steadily in my eyes, and held my hand affectionally. Narissa, let me take you away to a world that you have never known to exist.
Keira D. Skye
#32. I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
Ethel Merman
#33. Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
Ethel Merman
#35. I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.
Ethel Merman
#36. First, there will be no kidnapping. I know you're stronger and bigger and have magic and crap, but I'm drawing the line at kidnapping.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#37. I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.
Ethel Merman
#38. Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.
Ethel Merman
#39. Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
Ethel Merman
#40. Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
Ethel Merman
#41. Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
Ethel Merman
#42. At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
Ethel Merman
#44. I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
Ethel Merman
#45. I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?
Ethel Merman
#46. When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
Ethel Merman
#47. Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
Ethel Merman
#48. I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.
Ethel Merman
#50. My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
Ethel Merman
#51. I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
Ethel Merman
#52. I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
Ethel Merman
#53. I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
Ethel Merman
#54. Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Ethel Merman
#55. You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.
Ethel Merman
#56. At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
Ethel Merman
#57. 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.
Ethel Merman
#58. Music, in the past few years ... anything singable or understandable is square.
Ethel Merman
#59. 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.
Ethel Merman
#60. My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
Ethel Merman
#61. I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
Ethel Merman
#62. The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.
Ethel Merman
#63. I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
Ethel Merman
#64. As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
Ethel Merman
#65. I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.
Ethel Merman
#67. Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
Ethel Merman
#69. 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.
Ethel Merman
#70. Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
Ethel Merman
#71. Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
Ethel Merman
#72. I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
Ethel Merman
#73. I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.
Ethel Merman
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