Judy Garland Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.

Audiences have kept me alive.

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.

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

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

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.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

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

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

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 never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.

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.

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

I'm the original take-orders girl.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

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

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

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.

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

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

Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we'd like each other a little more.