We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
JUDY GARLANDHollywood is a strange place if you’re in trouble. Everybody thinks it’s contagious.
More Judy Garland Quotes
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When 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.
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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.
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I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.
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If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
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I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
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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.
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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.
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My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I’ve either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
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I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
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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.
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Hollywood is a strange place if you’re in trouble. Everybody thinks it’s contagious.
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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.
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I’ve been in love with audiences all my life, and I’ve tried to please. I hope I did.
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There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.
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To let a fool kiss you is bad. To let a kiss fool you is worse. ‘Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
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When I die I have visions of fags singing ‘Over the Rainbow’ and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
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I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
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The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
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If I’m such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I’m such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it’s out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she’s sure it’s not out of order?
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I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
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Audiences have kept me alive.
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Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.
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Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
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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.
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I think there’s something peculiar about me that I haven’t died. It doesn’t make sense but I refuse to die.
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Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
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