I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.
If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.
Earl Mills is probably the best role I've ever been given in a film. And it was a great experience to work with Halle [Berry] and Klaus Maria Brandauer, an Austrian actor who's a hero of mine. Martha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.
Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?