Judy Garland Quotes

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

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

It's lonely and cold on the top ... lonely and cold. ~ Judy Garland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Judy Garland

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

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

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

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. ~ Karina Longworth

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

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

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

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ~ Judy Garland

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

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

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

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

Normal" women were rare, unless one considered Judy Garland a normal woman. ~ William Stadiem

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

I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don't sing like Judy Garland. I don't dance like Cyd Charisse. But women identify with me. And while men desire Cyd Charisse, they'd take me home to meet Mom. ~ June Allyson

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

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

When parents talk about their pasts, the stories start to stick in your head. But the memories that you inherit look different from the now-world, and different from your own memories, too. Like they have a color all their own. I don't mean sepia-toned or something. My parents aren't even that old. I just mean that there is something particular about their glow. ~ Ava Dellaira

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

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. ~ Judy Garland

Behind every cloud is another cloud. ~ Judy Garland

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

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

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

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

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore. ~ Ariana Grande

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

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

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

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

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

It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her. ~ Liza Minnelli

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

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden. ~ Judy Garland

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

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

I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland. ~ Jenny Slate

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. ~ James Dickey

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

I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey. ~ Karine Vanasse

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

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

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

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?' ~ Mario Cantone

Audiences have kept me alive. ~ Judy Garland

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

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

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times. ~ Willard Scott

What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common? ~ Elijah

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

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

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

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

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

I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way. ~ Tammy Blanchard

I'm the original take-orders girl. ~ Judy Garland

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

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

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

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

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

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

As for describing the smell of a spaniel mixed with the smell of torches, laurels, incense, banners, wax candles and a garland of rose leaves crushed by a satin heel that has been laid up in camphor, perhaps Shakespeare, had he paused in the middle of writing Antony and Cleopatra - But Shakespeare did not pause. Confessing our inadequacy, then, we can but note that to Flush Italy, in these the fullest, the freest, the happiest years of his life, meant mainly a succession of smells. Love, it must be supposed, was gradually losing its appeal. Smell remained. Now that they were established in Casa Guidi again, all had their avocations. Mr. Browning wrote regularly in one room; Mrs. Browning wrote regularly in another. The baby played in the nursery. But Flush wandered off into the streets of Florence to enjoy the rapture of smell. He threaded his path through main streets and back streets, through squares and alleys, by smell. He nosed his way from smell to smell; the rough, the smooth, the dark, the golden. He went in and out, up and down, where they beat brass, where they bake bread, where the women sit combing their hair, where the bird-cages are piled high on the causeway, where the wine spills itself in dark red stains on the pavement, where leather smells and harness and garlic, where cloth is beaten, where vine leaves tremble, where men sit and drink and spit and dice - he ran in and out, always with his nose to the ground, drinking in the essence; or with his nose in ~ Virginia Woolf

It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself. ~ Merrick Garland

In Judaism, it is taught that there are three stages of grief to be endured. First there is weeping, for we all must weep for what we have lost. Second comes silence, for in the silence we understand solace, beauty, and comfort from something greater than ourselves. Third comes singing, for in singing we pour out our hearts and regain our voice. ~ Judy Collins

When you act a scene with Sidney Poitier, he listens intently to every word you say. You can feel your words hit him. He makes the scene utterly real. ~ Judy Geeson

One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen, you pay your taxes, you work, you should have all the rights and responsibilities of everybody else. ~ Judy Sheindlin

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes. ~ Judy Dater

Below the bows of the Arrawa a child's coffin moved onto the night stream. Its paper flowers were shaken loose by the wash of a landing craft carrying sailors from the American cruiser. The flowers formed a wavering garland around the coffin as it began its long journey to the estuary of the Yangtze, only to be swept back by the incoming tide among the quays and mud flats, driven once again to the shores of this terrible city (279). ~ J.G. Ballard

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things. ~ Judy Woodruff

The truth, for me, is I do accept everyone.
I believe people are going to be who they are going to be. Moreover, I strongly disagree that it is my place in life to judge who they are. Or to attempt to mold them into whom I believe they should become. ~ Paula Heller Garland

You're going to love it."
I nodded and tried to smile back.
"We're getting off at the beginners' slope so you don't have to worry."
"I'm not worried."
"You look scared to death."
"Don't be silly…I can't wait to learn to ski." But I was thinking, we're going up so high…how will I ever get down? My father was right…I am going to break a leg…I am going to fall off this chairlift and break a leg…maybe even two…probably two legs and an arm…possibly more than that even. ~ Judy Blume

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today. ~ Adolph Green

I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked about wanting to write plays and keep appealing to people through that medium, rather than politics. ~ Judy Woodruff

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular. ~ Judy Biggert

Taking a break from digging into your own issues doesn't make you unauthentic. It makes you sane. ~ Paula Heller Garland

You did it! You are free!!!!!!!! ~ Paige Garland

Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you ... ~ Judy Tenuta

Something as unique as 'Scrubs' is a tough act to follow. It's hard to find something that good that you want to really make a commitment to. ~ Judy Reyes

Ironically, most of my growth has come through struggle. ~ Paula Heller Garland

And my heart is breaking
My heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tears
I keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered ~ Paula Heller Garland

You can have all the sympathy in the world," she said, "just don't feel like you have to wrap your life around it. ~ Judy Reene Singer

There are no accidents in memory, for memory has its own reasons and its own logic. What I remember is what happened to me as I best recall it. ~ Judy Collins

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God. ~ Judy Davis

The rain landed on my skin with a barely audible patter and changed the tempo of its repetitive dance, letting the wind change its course and angle. The cold soon seeped through my dress and into my bones. An iris from my garland fell in my lap. ~ Erica Sehyun Song

I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool. ~ Mark Zupan

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. ~ Judy Collins

Jenny couldn't believe herself a multiple. She was a mother, a nurse, not that screwball who appeared on the screen like some dysfunctional figment of her imagination trying to find a life. Still, she was coming to a realization that accepting who she was would be the jailer's key to liberate her from this cuckoo's nest. ~ Judy Byington

Oh, I loved John Wayne. He was just so charming and easy to work with. ~ Judy Geeson

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go? ~ Judy Grahn