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I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.

Judy Garland

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.
JUDY GARLAND

Attention Cry Education Life Myself Suicide Thinking Time
I’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

Believe Fantasy Ideas Life Myself Serious
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
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
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
JUDY GARLAND

Live Love Money Myself
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
JUDY GARLAND

Blue Dare Dreams Inspirational Motivational Sky Yourself
Behind every cloud is another cloud.
JUDY GARLAND

Cloud Nature One Liner Philosophy
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
JUDY GARLAND

Alone Legend Lonely Myself
Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
JUDY GARLAND

Kiss Lips Myself Soul Yourself
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
When I die I have visions of fags singing ‘Over the Rainbow’ and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
JUDY GARLAND

Death Music Myself Vision
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
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
JUDY GARLAND

Age Born Studio Time
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
JUDY GARLAND

Be Yourself Original Rate Version
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?
JUDY GARLAND

Home Legend Lonely Myself Order Phone
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
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.
JUDY GARLAND

Legend Lonely Love Myself
I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
JUDY GARLAND

Audience Blood Greatness Love Myself True
Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.
JUDY GARLAND

Eat Food People
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
JUDY GARLAND

Heart Kissing Lips Myself Soul Yourself
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
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
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
Audiences have kept me alive.
JUDY GARLAND

Alive Audience One Liner
How strange when an illusion dies. It’s as though you’ve lost a child.
JUDY GARLAND

Children Death Illusion Lost Strange
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.
JUDY GARLAND

Audience Greatness Love Myself People Wonderful
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

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