I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.

I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

I was always lonesome. The only time I felt accepted or wanted was when I was on stage performing. I guess the stage was my only friend: the only place where I could feel comfortable. It was the only place where I felt equal and safe.

I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.

Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of somebody else.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

For it was not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed but my soul.

Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of someone else.

For it was not into my ear you whispered but into my heart.

How strange when an illusion dies. Its as though youve lost a child.

Hollywood is a strange place if youre in trouble. Everybody thinks its contagious.

Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.