Ethel Merman People Quotations

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

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.

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.