'I wish you would mention the joy she had for life, that's what she gave me. It was her love of life that carried her through everything. The middle of the road was never for her - it bored her. She wanted the pinnacle of excitement. If she was happy, she wasn't just happy, she was ecstatic. And when she was sad, she was sadder then anyone. She lived eight lives in one, and yet I thought she would outlive us all. She was a great star, and a great talent, and for the rest of my life I will be proud to be Judy Garland's daughter. It wasn't suicide, it wasn't sleeping pills, it wasn't cirrhosis. I think she was just tired, like a flower that blooms and gives joy and beauty to the world and then wilts away.' ~ Liza Minnelli

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills …

'She was the greatest performer. No one has been her equal.' ~ Mickey Rooney

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

He was the most fascinating man I have ever known, the only man I ever loved, the greatest man I shall ever meet, the wittiest, the gayest, the most charming. …