49 Judy Garland Quotes

Judy Garland quotes

1. I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

2. 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.

3. I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

4. I'm just an Irish biddy

5. Tell her I'll sing if she christens a ship first...

6. Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

7. Behind every gray cloud is another gray cloud.

8. For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

9. How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

10. I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

11. I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

12. I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

13. I'm the original take-orders girl.

14. 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.

15. If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

16. 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.

17. It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

18. My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

19. There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

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

21. 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.

22. 'I wish you would mention the joy she had for life, that's what she gave me. It was her love of life that carried her through everything. The middle of the road was never for her - it bored her. She wanted the pinnacle of excitement. If she was happy, she wasn't just happy, she was ecstatic. And when she was sad, she was sadder then anyone. She lived eight lives in one, and yet I thought she would outlive us all. She was a great star, and a great talent, and for the rest of my life I will be proud to be Judy Garland's daughter. It wasn't suicide, it wasn't sleeping pills, it wasn't cirrhosis. I think she was just tired, like a flower that blooms and gives joy and beauty to the world and then wilts away.' ~ Liza Minnelli

23. 'She was the greatest performer. No one has been her equal.' ~ Mickey Rooney

24. 'We will all be forgotten - but not Judy.' ~ Frank Sinatra

25. 'I really hadn't intended on becoming a professional musician, but that isn't to say that I didn't have the dreams of being Judy Garland.' ~ Maura O'Connell, singer [3]

26. 'the funniest woman in Hollywood' ~ Lucille Ball 1977

27. 'I thought she was the most adorable thing ever put on the face of the planet.' ~ Ray Bolger

1. 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.

2. For it was not into my ear that you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips that you kissed, but my soul.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

7. 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

11. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

12. On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

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

14. 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.

15. 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?

16. Audiences have kept me alive.

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

18. 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.

19. My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.

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

21. 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.

22. 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.