Judy Garland Quotes

American - Actress June 10, 1922 - June 22, 1969

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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.

Heart Soul You Lips Valentine's Day

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

Black And White Great Black People

I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.

Life Funny Good Father

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

Wisdom Yourself Always Somebody Else

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.

Life Believe Rainbow You

I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.

Woman People Reach Her

I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.

Life Daily Believe People

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Nature Cloud Behind Every Another

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

Dreams Death Time Imagination

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

Alone I Am Legend Lonely

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

Lonely Cold Top

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

Tears Laughter Know Try

I was always lonesome. The only time I felt accepted or wanted was when I was on stage performing. I guess the stage was my only friend: the only place where I could feel comfortable. It was the only place where I felt equal and safe.

Friend Time Feel Place

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

You Place Strange Trouble

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

Life Father Death Me

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

Love Money Live I Can Without

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

Looking Back Looking Someone Back

From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.

Time Childhood Struggle Me

I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.

Life Children Woman Man

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.

Love Silence Man Night

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.

Alone People You World

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

Child You Illusion Lost

A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

Love Great Me People

I'm the original take-orders girl.

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

You Try Worst Get

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

Life My Life Think Attention

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