Top 53 Judy Garland Quotes
#1. Never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself
Judy Garland
#2. I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.
Judy Garland
#3. In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland
#4. There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life ... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Judy Garland
#5. I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland
#6. I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.
Judy Garland
#7. The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
Judy Garland
#8. There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.
Judy Garland
#9. I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland
#10. You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.
Judy Garland
#11. Soon the sun beams will smile through. Before you jump out of that bed, just know, the thought of you was the first thing that hit my head. Good morning my darling.
Judy Garland
#12. I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.
Judy Garland
#13. I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.
Judy Garland
#14. When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.
Judy Garland
#15. Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?
Judy Garland
#16. I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.
Judy Garland
#17. I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.
Judy Garland
#18. A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
Judy Garland
#19. My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.
Judy Garland
#20. I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland
#22. I was always lonesome. The only time I felt accepted or wanted was when I was on stage performing. I guess the stage was my only friend: the only place where I could feel comfortable. It was the only place where I felt equal and safe.
Judy Garland
#23. How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Judy Garland
#24. He gave me a look at myself I've never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.
Judy Garland
#25. My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
Judy Garland
#26. From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.
Judy Garland
#27. I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.
Judy Garland
#28. Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!
Judy Garland
#29. My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.
Judy Garland
#30. On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.
Judy Garland
#31. When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
Judy Garland
#32. When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad
well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.
Judy Garland
#33. It's lonely and cold on the top ... lonely and cold.
Judy Garland
#34. For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
#35. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience ... I want to give them two hours of just pow.
Judy Garland
#36. I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
Judy Garland
#37. You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.
Judy Garland
#38. If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland
#40. If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Judy Garland
#41. We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland
#42. I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy Garland
#43. Wouldn t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.
Judy Garland
#44. I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland
#45. In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
Judy Garland
#46. If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland
#47. I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
Judy Garland
#48. As for my feelings toward 'Over the Rainbow,' it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all my dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
Judy Garland
#49. Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland
#50. You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
Judy Garland
#53. Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
Judy Garland
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