Judy Garland Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I'm the original take-orders girl.

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

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

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

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

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

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.

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.

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

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

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'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.

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

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

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