By Judy Garland Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

Judy Garland

#3. See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

Mel Torme

#4. Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

Judy Davis

#5. 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

#6. I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

Imelda May

#7. I remember when I was doing Mermaids [1990], I was 16 and they gave me a B12 shot once. My parents weren't there, and when they did come, they freaked out. They were terrified, because of the Judy Garland stories. I know it's just vitamin B, but it did give you a boost.

Winona Ryder

#8. Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.

Carrie Fisher

#9. Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

Judy Garland

#10. I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

Judy Garland

#11. With apologies to Judy Garland and Cole Porter, all the world does NOT love a clown. John Wayne Gacy might have been the final nail in the coffin in terms of anyone associating clowns with funny (if a bunch of clowns die, do they all fit into one coffin?)

Christopher Lombardo

#12. I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

Judy Garland

#13. She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

James Dickey

#14. For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

Rufus Wainwright

#15. 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

#16. My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

Judy Garland

#17. 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

#18. I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great.

Emmy Rossum

#19. Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Judy Garland

#20. We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

#21. Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

Aretha Franklin

#22. Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.

Aubrey Plaza

#23. 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

#24. One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

Lorna Luft

#25. Never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself

Judy Garland

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

Tony Bennett

#30. I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland

#31. It took me a while to see that the contrast between the racism directed at Billie and the compassion offered to addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the drug war - it was part of the point.

Johann Hari

#32. I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Imelda May

#33. People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

Lorna Luft

#34. The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

Judy Garland

#35. I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.

Jenny Slate

#36. There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

Judy Garland

#37. I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Judy Garland

#38. 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

#39. I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.

Lainie Kazan

#40. 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

#41. What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?

Elijah

#42. I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

Diane Keaton