Top 40 Judy Garland Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”

— Judy Garland

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2. “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

— Judy Garland

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3. “The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.”

— Judy Garland

4. “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

5. “My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I’ve either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.”

— Judy Garland

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6. “Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.”

— Judy Garland

7. “Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

— Judy Garland

8. “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.”

— Judy Garland

9. “Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can’t I?”

— Judy Garland

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

— Judy Garland

11. “I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.”

— Judy Garland

12. “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.”

— Judy Garland

13. “As for my feelings toward ‘Over the Rainbow,’ it’s become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all my dreams and wishes that I’m sure that’s why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.”

— Judy Garland

14. “When you have lived the life I’ve lived, when you’ve loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad – well, that’s when you realize you’ll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you’d rather die first.”

— Judy Garland

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15. “How strange when an illusion dies. It’s as though you’ve lost a child.”

— Judy Garland

16. “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?”

— Judy Garland

17. “If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?”

— Judy Garland

18. “Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we’d like each other a little more.”

— Judy Garland

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

— Judy Garland

20. “When I die I have visions of fags singing ‘Over the Rainbow’ and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.”

— Judy Garland

21. “He gave me a look at myself I’ve never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.”

— Judy Garland

22. “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

23. “If I’m such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you’ve got somebody around who loves you.”

— Judy Garland

24. “Soon the sun beams will smile through. Before you jump out of that bed, just know, the thought of you was the first thing that hit my head. Good morning my darling.”

— Judy Garland

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25. “I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.”

— Judy Garland

26. “Velveeta: you can eat it – or wax your car with it!”

— Judy Garland

27. “I’m just an Irish biddy.”

— Judy Garland

28. “I’ve been in love with audiences all my life, and I’ve tried to please. I hope I did.”

— Judy Garland

29. “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.”

— Judy Garland

30. “Audiences have kept me alive.”

— Judy Garland

31. “I’ve never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.”

— Judy Garland

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

— Judy Garland

33. “I’m the original take-orders girl.”

— Judy Garland

34. “On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.”

— Judy Garland

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

— Judy Garland

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

— Judy Garland

37. “Hollywood is a strange place if you’re in trouble. Everybody thinks it’s contagious.”

— Judy Garland

38. “You know something? I’m decent! There isn’t a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I’m one of the few really decent ladies around.”

— Judy Garland

39. “I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.”

— Judy Garland

40. “Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul.”

— Judy Garland