Judy Garland quotes

Explore the timeless wisdom and wit of Hollywood legend Judy Garland with these memorable quotes on love, life, and stardom.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

- Judy Garland

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

- Judy Garland

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

- Judy Garland

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

- Judy Garland

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.

- Judy Garland

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

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

- Judy Garland

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

- Judy Garland

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

- Judy Garland

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

- Judy Garland

I'm the original take-orders girl.

- Judy Garland

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

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

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

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

- 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

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

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

- Judy Garland

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

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

- Judy Garland

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

- Judy Garland