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

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

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

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

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.

As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

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