I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

Writing is the one thing I know I will never grow tired of in life

I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.