Mary Martin Quotations

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Miss Merman is a great broad...that is, she's a great Broadway star.

That's the highest you can receive. It means we not only met but exceeded all the requirements.

We have everything here a scarecrow could want, the fall harvest, the beauty of the changing colors, apple cider, pumpkins and cornstalks.

They hadn't even started writing it, but it didn't matter; I knew that anything that had that song in it would be beautiful.

This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work.

Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib. ... They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go over them.

After 60, its just patch, patch, patch

When you love others you aren't nervous.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.

Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.

I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.

Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it

We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.