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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.

Judy Garland

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

Hollywood Place Strange Thinking Trouble
I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
JUDY GARLAND

Audience Drama Laughter Myself Tear Try
Behind every cloud is another cloud.
JUDY GARLAND

Cloud Nature One Liner Philosophy
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

Alone Feeling People Sick Stage World Yourself
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

Believe Inspirational Love Relationship See Yourself
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.
JUDY GARLAND

Bed Head Love Myself Shine Smile Sun
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

Dreams Eyes Feeling Life Myself Tears
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

Love Man Myself Night People Silence Word
I’ve been in love with audiences all my life, and I’ve tried to please. I hope I did.
JUDY GARLAND

Audience Hope Love Myself Performance
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

Career Failure Life Myself Success
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.
JUDY GARLAND

Bad Fools Kiss Lips Myself Soul Worst Yourself
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

Death Myself Thinking Weird
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.
JUDY GARLAND

Death Happiness Life Live Suffering Tolerance Yourself
I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.
JUDY GARLAND

Born Garden Home Myself White
Audiences have kept me alive.
JUDY GARLAND

Alive Audience One Liner
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
JUDY GARLAND

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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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