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Judy Garland Quotes (1922-1969)
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About Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; 10 June 1922 β 22 June 1969) was an American film actress, singer and dancer. She is one the AFI's Ten Greatest Female Stars of American Cinema.
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βI'm just an Irish biddy.β
βI was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.β
βI've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.β
βAlways be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.β
βI wanted to believe, and I tried my damnedest to believe, in the rainbow I tried to get over, and I couldn't! β¦ So what? Lots of people can't!β
βYou 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.β
βWouldn`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.β
βGo 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. β¦ Tell her I'll sing if she christens a ship first.β
βAs 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.β
βWhen 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..β
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Judy Garland on Empathy
βWouldn`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.β
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Liza Minnelli on Judy Garland
βI wish you would mention the joy she had for life, thatβs what she gave me. If she was the tragic figure they say she was, I would be a wreck, wouldn't I? It was her love of life that carried her through everything. The middle of the road was never for her β it bored her. She wanted the pinnacle of excitement. If she was happy, she wasnβt just happy, she was ecstatic. And when she was sad, she was sadder then anyone. She lived eight lives in one, and yet I thought she would outlive us all. She was a great star, and a great talent, and for the rest of my life I will be proud to be Judy Garland's daughter. It wasnβt suicide, it wasnβt sleeping pills, it wasnβt cirrhosis. I think she was just tired, like a flower that blooms and gives joy and beauty to the world and then wilts away.β
As paraphrased on Judy Garland
βLiza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those "special songs" of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd "rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama."β
Liza Minelli on Judy Garland 4 quotes
βI couldn't sing Mama's special songs. I couldn't do them as well. I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.β
Lorna Luft on Judy Garland
βMy mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster. And in spite of her self-doubts, she had a very strong sense of who she was. She had a sense of self-worth. She loved being Judy Garland. Did she secretly long to be Frances Gumm? Somebody, Minnesota housewife? Are you kidding? She'd have run off with a vaudeville troupe just the way my grandfather did.β
Maura O'Connell on Judy Garland
βI really hadn't intended on becoming a professional musician, but that isn't to say that I didn't have the dreams of being a Judy Garland in some sort of wonderful musical where this music came out of nowhere; things like that.β
About Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; 10 June 1922 β 22 June 1969) was an American film actress, singer and dancer. She is one the AFI's Ten Greatest Female Stars of American Cinema.