Judy Garland famous quotes

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

#Love #Funny #Romantic

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
-- Judy Garland

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Money #Love Of Money

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

#Dream #Reality #Imagination

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.
-- Judy Garland

#Empathy #Littles #Wonderful

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

#Memorable #Age #Twelve

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

#People #Feelings #World

Behind every cloud is another cloud.
-- Judy Garland

#Clouds #Behinds

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
-- Judy Garland

#Lonely #Being Alone #Legends

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.
-- Judy Garland

#Love #Good Night #Men

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

#Happiness #Laughter #Drama

Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!
-- Judy Garland

#Car #Culinary

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

#Girl #Order

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

#Humor #Advice #Trying

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.
-- Judy Garland

#Play #Numbers #People

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?
-- Judy Garland

#Lonely #Home #Order

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

#Finding Someone #Keyholes #Findings

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
-- Judy Garland

#Heart #Eye #Treasure

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.
-- Judy Garland

#Able #Firsts #Realizing

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

#Rainbow #Bird

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

#Dream #Eye #People

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
-- Judy Garland

#Thinking #Hollywood #Strange

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.
-- Judy Garland

#Taken #Believe #Ideas

I'm just an Irish biddy.
-- Judy Garland

Audiences have kept me alive.
-- Judy Garland

#Alive #Audience

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

#Blood #Giving #Great Love

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

#Two #People #Giving

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

#Believe #Looks #Saws

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

#Lonely #Loneliness #Love You

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
-- Judy Garland

#Kissing #Soul #Lips

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

#Lonely #Cold #Being Lonely

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

#Children #Strange #Illusion

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

#Thinking #Attention #Cry

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

#Thinking #Peculiar #Make Sense

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

#Believe #Tickets #Stills

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

#Success #Congratulations #Careers

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.
-- Judy Garland

#Good Morning #Firsts #Sun

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

#Daughter #Mother #Thinking

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

#Please #Audience

When I die I have visions of ***** singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
-- Judy Garland

#Fire #Islands #Rainbow