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Quotes from My Heart Belongs — Mary Martin

1913–1990 United States

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7 quotes

I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something.

My Heart Belongs (1976)

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

My Heart Belongs (1976)

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

My Heart Belongs (1976)

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

My Heart Belongs (1976)

It was all role playing. I felt Larry was my little brother, Ben my big brother. Role playing was something I had known since I was born, but it wasn't a good basis for a marriage.

My Heart Belongs (1976)

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.

My Heart Belongs (1976)

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

My Heart Belongs (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Martin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.