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Judy Garland
11 quotes
“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..”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking for America, Scholastic Magazines (1946)
“I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Observer (18 February 1951)
“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 (1922–1969) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LIFE magazine (2 June 1961)
“I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview, NBC TV (16 March 1961)
“I'm just an Irish biddy.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press Conference, Sydney Australia (18 May 1964)
“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.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Garland's annoyed response to a note from Princess Margaret "commanding" her to sing at a party in 1965, as quoted in Princess Margaret : A Biography (1977) by Theo Aronson
“They were little drunks. They got smashed every night and the police used to scoop them up in butterfly nets.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1967 as reported 8 February 2017 here in Guardian article by Catherine Shoard
“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.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Little Girl Lost (1974) by Al DiOrio, p. 9
“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!”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Judy (1974) by Gerold Frank, p. 566
“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.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Harold Arlen, as quoted in Over the Rainbow : The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (1991) by Paul Nathanson, p. 340
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Business Etiquette for the Nineties : Your Ticket to Career Success (1992) by Lou Kennedy, p. 8