Talk:Judy Garland

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• Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
  • To her daughter, Liza Minelli. Variant: Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

• Behind every gray cloud is another gray cloud.

• For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
  • Correct quote is: "For 'twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart./'Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul"
  • Source is: the poem "My Love Is Lost", from Garland's privately published book of poetry, also titled "My Love Is Lost".

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

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

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

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

• I'm the original take-orders girl.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• She was the real Wicked Witch of the West.
  • On her stage mother, Ethel Gumm.

• I knew she wanted to go into show business as an embryo, she kicked so much.
  • On her daughter, Liza Minnelli.

• 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 more.
  • Sourced version being placed on the page: 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.

Quotes about Judy Garland (unsourced)

• She was the greatest performer. No one has been her equal.
  • Mickey Rooney

• We will all be forgotten — but not Judy.
  • Frank Sinatra

• The funniest woman in Hollywood.
  • Lucille Ball 1977

• I thought she was the most adorable thing ever put on the face of the planet.
  • Ray Bolger

• Worried in the wings, but stupendous on stage.
  • Harry Hammond, photographer

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