If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
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.
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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 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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I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
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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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Audiences have kept me alive.
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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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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.
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
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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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