“It takes place in an Oz that's familiar to everyone. But it's about how you treat people you think are different from you.”
David Hansen
“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”
Barbara Bush
“You don't know what a fanatic Judy Garland fan or an Oz fanatic is capable of. They think they want to have them, even if they have to keep them at some sort of twisted altar someplace down in the basement.”
Michael Shaw
“After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.”
Bert Lahr
“You look at the 'Wizard of Oz' and you see things flying up in the air…this is where everything goes that didn't land.”
Whoopi Goldberg
“A pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz have been stolen. The thief is described as being armed and fabulous.”
David Letterman
“I had really tried to do everything else but [revisit Oz]. Partly because I knew there would be some amongst us who would say, 'Oh, he's just trying to milk that cow.' . . . . But in the end, I had an idea I couldn't get rid of. I couldn't get it out of my room.”
Gregory Maguire
