Top 59 Quotes & Sayings by Judy Garland
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Judy Garland.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
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.
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Behind every cloud is another cloud.
My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.
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.
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.
I'm the original take-orders girl.
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.
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.
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
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.
I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
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.
I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
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.
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.
I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.
Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.
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.
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.
I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.
I'm just an Irish biddy.
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.
As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
To let a fool kiss you is bad...To let a kiss fool you is worse. 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
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.
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.
Audiences have kept me alive.
Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!
Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?
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.
[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.
My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
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