Quotes by Judy Garland


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
– 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.
– Judy Garland
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
– Judy Garland
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
– 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
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
– Judy Garland
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
– Judy Garland
I'm the original take-orders girl.
– Judy Garland
I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
– Judy Garland
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
– 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
If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her.
– Judy Garland
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
– Judy Garland
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
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
– Judy Garland
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
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
'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
– Judy Garland
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
– Judy Garland
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
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.
– Judy Garland
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
– Judy Garland
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'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