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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Quotes by Judy Garland