Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off

Dinah had all the class.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

I don't like to hear anybody in show business complain, because I just find it to be such a grateful business. Because there are so many wonderful, creative souls out there and there are so few jobs. And, so, I just find myself thinking to myself "wow, if I could get into a show of any kind and have it last for a while" - that's when I find myself really happy.

I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.