Judy Garland

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

My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

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