Mary Martin Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Mary Martin

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

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

When you love others you aren't nervous. — Mary Martin

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch. — Mary Martin

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 — Mary Martin

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. — Mary Martin

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

Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action. — Mary Martin

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. — Mary Martin

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