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

Mary Martin

Source: My Heart Belongs (1976), p. 20
Context: Never, never, never can I say I had a frustrating childhood. It was all joy. Mother used to say she never had seen such a happy child — that I awakened each morning with a smile. I don’t remember that, but I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something.

“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.”

Mary Martin

On her early married life with her first husband Ben Hagman, p. 39
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.”

Mary Martin

Source: My Heart Belongs (1976), p. 39

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

Mary Martin

Source: My Heart Belongs (1976), p. 268

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

Mary Martin

As quoted in Right Time, Right Place, Right Move, Right Now! (1992) by Perry W. Buffington, Section I : Life

“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

As quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 6

Mary Martin Quotes

“I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so.”

Mary Martin

As quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 183
Context: I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.

Love , Joy , Flying

“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

Source: My Heart Belongs (1976), p. 20

Love , Family , Way , Thinking

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

Mary Martin

On becoming a dance teacher, and creating her own moves, p. 44
My Heart Belongs (1976)

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

Mary Martin

As quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 180

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

Mary Martin

As quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 183

Life , Way

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

Mary Martin

Source: My Heart Belongs (1976), p. 19

Angels

“You are my Peter Pan.”

Mary Martin

To Sandy Duncan, who had told her "You're the only Peter Pan I'll ever know" in a meeting after a Duncan's performance in the role, as quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 183