To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

Bleeding feet will bond us.

You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.

She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.