You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

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

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've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.