Judy Garland

A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

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.

I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

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

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

I'm the original take-orders girl.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

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

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

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.

My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.

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

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

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

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

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

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

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.

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