Quotes from Judy Garland

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

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 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.

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

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

I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.

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.

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.

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.

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.