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.
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 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.
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.
Behind every cloud is another cloud.
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
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.
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.
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.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
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.
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've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
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.
My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.
In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
