Judy Garland Quotes

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

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.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

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

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.

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.

Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.

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.

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

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

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

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, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Audiences have kept me alive.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.