Judy Garland Quotes

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

Judy Garland
I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

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I wanted to believe, and I tried my damnedest to believe, in the rainbow I tried to get over, and I couldn't! … So what? Lots of people can't!

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

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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.

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

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

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Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore... Now I know we're not in Kansas.

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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

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

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Wouldn t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

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Hollywood is strange when you're in trouble. Everyone is afraid it's contagious.

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Go and tell that nasty, rude little princess that we've known each other for long enough and gabbed enough in ladies' rooms that she should skip the ho-hum royal routine and just pop over here and ask me herself. … Tell her I'll sing if she christens a ship first.

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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?

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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.

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