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 Copy Share Image
Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib. ... They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go… — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him… — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might… — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
