Top 185 Judy Quotes & Sayings

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

I don't go anywhere without Judy.

I think without a doubt there will never be a voice like Judy Garland.

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story.

It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.

I never wanted to be a Judy Garland.

I don't have TiVo, but I watch a lot of 'Judge Judy' - it makes me happy about my life when I see what the people on that show do.

When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use of the apostrophe

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

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.

I was supposed to have a relationship with Judy, but that never happened. Actors in series didn't have the control that they have today over their jobs.

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

I learned by watching Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.

There's a lot of judges on TV in America. Apart from Judge Judy, the vast majority of them are terrible.

Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are the best. You won't have me ever say a bad word about them.

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?

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

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.

I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.

I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?'

My parents are pretty liberal. But they were just you know trying to look out for my innocence or whatever. But my babysitter had "Forever" [by Judy Blume]. And I said "Well I've read Judy Blume books, can I borrow that?" And she said no, this one's not appropriate for you. Which obviously, got me really worked up. So I took it.

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.

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.

I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.

I used to scrimp with Judy in one-room apartments.

When I was 18 years old, I moved into Neneh Cherry's house in Kensal Rise with Judy Blame and our friend Michael Boadi.

I wanted the opportunity to work with Judy Davis and Simon Wincer.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

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

I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too.

Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.

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.

Aside from the whole Richard and Judy fame thing, I am incredibly lucky they're my mum and dad.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

I sit down on my sofa and I turn on 'Judge Judy.' That's my guilty pleasure. I could do a whole day of that.

Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.

You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

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.

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.

I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?

Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.

On 'Richard And Judy' I dressed up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.

Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about - what teenagers are actually doing.

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

I almost did the knee-jerk thing of saying Judge Judy is funny to me, but I just don't have the patience for the format of that show.

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.

Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted.

I have always wanted to work with Judy Dench, and that hasn't happened yet, so that would be fun.

I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.

When we went to Judy Davis and said, 'We want you to play Judy Garland in the mini-series 'Life With Judy Garland,' she was shocked, but we just had an instinct about her.

I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.

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?

I don't do Judy Garland or Mae West, and I'm not a female impersonator. I'm an actor.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.