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.

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 somebody else.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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