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I was always lonesome. The only time I felt accepted or wanted was when I was on stage performing. I guess the stage was my only friend: the only place where I could feel comfortable. It was the only place where I felt equal and safe.

- Judy Garland

Always, Performing, Could, Lonesome

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

- Judy Garland

Wisdom, Always, Else, First-Rate

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

Soul, Lips, Valentine's Day, Ear

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.

- Judy Garland

Love, Big, Been, Pad

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

Over It, Idea, Very, Wizard Of Oz

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

- Judy Garland

Born, I Was Born, Lot, MGM

From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.

- Judy Garland

I Remember, Constant, About, MGM

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

- Judy Garland

Death, My Life, Most, Terrible Thing

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

- Judy Garland

Mother, Money, Mine, Marvelous

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

- Judy Garland

Death, Away, Fed, Priceless

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.

- Judy Garland

Jewish, Anything Else, Group

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

- Judy Garland

Hollywood, Everybody, Contagious

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

Die, Think, I Think, Peculiar

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

Love, Night, Rather, Applause

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

- Judy Garland

Law, Became, Our, Louis

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.

- Judy Garland

Other, Expression, Religious, I Believe

I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.

- Judy Garland

Father, My Life, Very, Together

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.

- Judy Garland

Song, Always, Over, Besides

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

- Judy Garland

Some, Been, Lot, Distorted

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

- Judy Garland

Lost, How, Though, Dies

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

Feel, Like, Ill, Front

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

I See, Ticket, Still, Floor

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

- Judy Garland

My Life, Think, Some, Crying

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

- Judy Garland

Woman, People, Reach, Million People

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

- Judy Garland

Looking Back, Never, Through, Keyhole

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

- Judy Garland

Tears, Drama, Audience, Laughter

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

- Judy Garland

Opera, Role, Get, Soap

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

- Judy Garland

Book, Think, I Think, Perspective

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

- Judy Garland

Alone, I Am, Legend, Lonely

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

- Judy Garland

Top, Cold, Lonely

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