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 GARLANDYou 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 GARLANDAlways be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
JUDY GARLANDHow strange when an illusion dies. It’s as though you’ve lost a child.
JUDY GARLANDWhen you have lived the life I’ve lived, when you’ve loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad — well, that’s when you realize you’ll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you’d rather die first.
JUDY GARLANDThere have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.
JUDY GARLANDThe greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
JUDY GARLANDMy life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I’ve either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
JUDY GARLANDTo let a fool kiss you is bad. To let a kiss fool you is worse. ‘Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
JUDY GARLANDHollywood is a strange place if you’re in trouble. Everybody thinks it’s contagious.
JUDY GARLANDIf 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 GARLANDAs 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 GARLANDHe 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 GARLANDI try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
JUDY GARLANDPeople 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 GARLANDI truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
JUDY GARLANDI’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