Quotes from Judy Garland

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

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

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

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Actors live in a queer sort of double world. Not many of us have the names or identities we were born with.

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Ever since The Wizard of Oz I've been accused of being twelve years old. You should see some of the disappointed looks I get, when people lay eyes on me in person. They expect someone in gingham, with braids, to come out singing 'Over the Rainbow.' And out I come, instead.

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

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

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

Real religion is in your mind and heart, and can't be judged by the number of times you go to church."

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

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

Time won't stop and life won't stand still. But I have a feeling that if I just look backward once in a while at Dorothy, if I am off beat in any way, I'll get back on the soundtrack again. . . .

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.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.