Top 100 Judy Garland's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
Liza Minnelli
#4. I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
Bette Midler
#5. 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
#6. It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground.
Deborah Cox
#7. I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
Kara Lindsay
#8. I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.
Melora Hardin
#9. Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
Imelda May
#10. I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.
Mike Tyson
#11. 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
#12. If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland
#13. The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.
Lorna Luft
#15. Normal" women were rare, unless one considered Judy Garland a normal woman.
William Stadiem
#16. If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Judy Garland
#17. 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
#18. I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
Judy Garland
#19. When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
Lorna Luft
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.
Allison Tolman
#24. I sing 'I Have Confidence' from 'The Sound of Music' as Judy Garland, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Elaine Stritch and Julie Andrews - each alternating lines.
Sara Chase
#25. I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.
Kenny Ortega
#26. Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
Janelle Monae
#27. It's lonely and cold on the top ... lonely and cold.
Judy Garland
#28. 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
#29. I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.
Mickey Rooney
#30. 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
#31. Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
Judy Garland
#32. 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
#33. A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.
Madonna Ciccone
#34. 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
#35. We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and she's still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness.
Sheryl Crow
#36. Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland
#37. 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
#38. The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.
Gene Kelly
#39. I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
Judy Garland
#40. Judy, of course, doesn't stand in the ruins; she is the ruin. In this way she enthralled a generation of gay men, singing her way out of suffering while still bearing the inescapable marks of damage.
Mark Doty
#41. Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.
Judy Davis
#42. We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland
#43. In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
Judy Garland
#44. When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
Lorna Luft
#45. 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
#46. Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?
Pauline Kael
#47. 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
#48. When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!
Jack Benny
#49. I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy Garland
#50. My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
Lorna Luft
#51. I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.
Max Von Essen
#52. 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
#53. There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.
Judy Garland
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.
Judy Garland
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?
Elijah
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland
#65. 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
#66. I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
Jenny Slate
#67. The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
Judy Garland
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland
#72. No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.
Tony Bennett
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself
Judy Garland
#78. Judy Garland had this wonderful spontaneity that you just don't see anymore. She was such a witty, witty woman. And when you listen to her on ...
Charles Busch
#79. My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.
Judy Garland
#80. Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!
Judy Garland
#81. 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
#82. Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.
Sarah Vaughan
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then again when a state is famous for a Judy Garland musical about a rainbow and a wizard who comes out of a closet, do you really need an excuse?
Jimmy Fallon
#87. How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Judy Garland
#88. 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
#89. On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.
Judy Garland
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.
Judy Garland
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
James Dickey
#96. I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.
Judy Garland
#97. 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
#98. I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.
Judy Garland
#99. Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?
Judy Garland
#100. 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
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