99+ Most Inspiring Judy Garland Quotes Of All Time

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.

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

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.

Judy Garland

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

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

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.

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

Judy Garland Quotes For it Was Not

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

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

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

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

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

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.

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

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

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

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.

Judy Garland

I’m the original take-orders girl.

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

Famous quotes wizard of oz

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.

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

 It’s lonely and cold on the top… lonely and cold.

Judy Garland

Quote from wizard of oz

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.

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

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

Judy Garland

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.

Judy Garland

Famous wizard of oz quotes

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

Judy Garland

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.

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

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.

Judy Garland

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.

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

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’m the original take-orders girl.

Judy Garland

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.

Judy Garland

Quotes from the wizard of oz

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

Judy Garland

I’m always being painted a more tragic figure than I am, I get awfully bored with myself as a tragic figure.

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

“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.”

Judy Garland

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.

Judy Garland

Famous lines from wizard of oz

Every time the camera rolls, I think to myself Maybe this is the time they’re going to catch me.

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

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.

Judy Garland

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I could sketch out a score in different keys, a new way each time.

Judy Garland

I wanted to believe and I tried my damndest to believe in the rainbow that I tried to get over and couldn’t. So what? Lots of people can’t.

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

Audiences have kept me alive.

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland

Famous quotes from wizard of oz

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Dorothy Gale, ‘The Wizards of Oz’.

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The main thing is, Tootie, that we’re all going to be together, just like we’ve always been. That’s what really counts. We could be happy anywhere as long as we’re together.

Esther Smith, ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’

You’re the most deceitful, horrible, sinful creature I ever saw, and I don’t ever want to have anything to do with you again.

Esther Smith, ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’

Nellie Kelly: There’s nothing like a darn good cry, is there?

Michael Noonan: There’s whiskey.

‘Little Nellie Kelly’

Always be a first rate version of yourself

Psychologically, I’m very confused, but personally I feel just wonderful.

Veronica Fisher, ‘In the Good Old Summertime’

Oh dear! I keep forgetting I’m not in Kansas!

Well, Papa, if losing a case depresses you so, why don’t you quit practicing law and go into another line of business?

Esther Smith, ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’

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.

Judy Garland

Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us.

And 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 next year at this time we’d like each other a little…

Judy Garland

I love the days we spent together

Before the old year lost its shine

I’ll keep that memory locked within my heart

That Happy New Year, you were mine

Judy Garland

I wish you a Happy New Year, darling

May your new love be bright and fair

I hope, he’ll do those special things for you

That I would do if I were there

Judy Garland

The gay ones don their silly paper hats

And blow their stupid little horns

At midnight they will all be singing Auld Lang Syne

But the sad ones sit alone before the fire and sip a glass of lonely wine

Judy Garland

The snow makes teardrops on my window

The wind blows memories through my hall

And I am all alone on New Year’s Eve

The time I need you most of all

Judy Garland

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

Judy Garland