I've had a life experience that's full of warts, full of successes.
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
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
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.