Judy Garland
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.Collection: Valentines
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.Collection: Love
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.Collection: Dreams
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.Collection: Wisdom
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Funny
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.Collection: Age
Behind every cloud is another cloud.Collection: Nature
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
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.
There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.
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.
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.
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.
I'm the original take-orders girl.
My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.
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 think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.
I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.
The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Empathy
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.Collection: Dream
Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.Collection: People
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.Collection: Able
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.Collection: Play
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.Collection: Kissing
Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?Collection: Psychics
As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.Collection: Dream
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?Collection: Lonely
I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.Collection: Please
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.Collection: Fire
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Good Morning
My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.Collection: Success
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.Collection: World
Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!Collection: Food