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.

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

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

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.

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

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

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

I'm the original take-orders girl.

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

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.

My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.

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

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

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

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.

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

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

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