When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

I think that when you're in your twenties you think about your future, when you're in your thirties you're raising kids and you think about their future, but when you get to a time when you are diagnosed with any kind of life altering illness, what did you take away from it? And what I took away from it was how to live in the "now".

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.