Judy Garland

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

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

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

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

“It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.”

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

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

“בדממת הלילה השתוקקתי לעיתים רק לכמה מילות אהבה מגבר אחד.”

“משום שלא לתוך אוזניי לחשת, אלא אל תוך ליבי. אלה לא היו שפתיי שנישקת, אלא נשמתי.”

“תמיד תהיה הגרסה העיקרית של עצמך במקום הגרסה המשנית של מישהו אחר.”

“מעולם לא הסתכלתי דרך חור המנעול, בלי לגלות שמישהו אחר מביט בי חזרה.”

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

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”