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

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

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I'm just an Irish biddy. by Judy Garland

I'm just an Irish biddy.

I'm the original take-orders girl. by Judy Garland

I'm the original take-orders girl.

originals girl order

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

great-love giving blood

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.

tickets stills believe

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of... by Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Actors live in a queer sort of double world. Not many of us have the names or identities we were born with.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-r... by Judy Garland

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

Ever since The Wizard of Oz I’ve been accused of being twelve years old. You should see some of the disappointed looks I get, when people lay eyes on me in person. They expect someone in gingham, with braids, to come out singing ‘Over the Rainbow.’ And out I come, instead.

I don’t associate Frances Gumm with me—she’s a girl I can read about the way other people do. I, Judy Garland, was born when I was twelve years old.

I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. by Judy Garland

I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in... by Judy Garland

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

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

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

It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

I’ve been treated brutally by the press, but I’ll be damned if I’ll have my audience mistreated.”

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me... by Judy Garland

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

People think of me as a neurotic kid, full of fits and depressions, biting my fingernails to the bone, living under an eternal shadow of illness and collapse. Why do people insist on seeing an aura of tragedy around me always? My life isn’t tragic at all. I laugh a lot these days. At myself, too. Lord, if I couldn’t laugh at myself I don’t think I’d be alive.

Real religion is in your mind and heart, and can’t be judged by the number of times you go to church.”

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them f... by Judy Garland

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

Time won’t stop and life won’t stand still. But I have a feeling that if I just look backward once in a while at Dorothy, if I am off beat in any way, I’ll get back on the soundtrack again. . . .