Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
Judy GarlandRead
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects struggles with mental health and the desire for attention and help.
Judy Garland's quote reveals the deep emotional pain that can lead individuals to contemplate taking their own lives. It suggests that these actions can sometimes stem from a longing for recognition and support from others, highlighting the importance of understanding and addressing mental health issues, as well as the need for compassion and connection in times of distress.
Themes
Mental HealthAttentionEmotional PainSupportStruggles
In practice
Example use cases
In a mental health awareness workshop to emphasize the importance of discussing feelings.
More from Judy Garland
All quotes →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.
Judy GarlandRead
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy GarlandRead
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy GarlandRead
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 GarlandRead
The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
Judy GarlandRead
Similar quotes
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel De CervantesRead
What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.
Brandon SandersonRead
Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'
MartaRead
Every single time I get on the mat, every tournament, I get to see what I'm made of, how tough I am, where my desire is, and how hard I've worked.
Jordan BurroughsRead
There are periods on the mountain when you exist between living and dying, sometimes for days. I went through that with my brother on Nanga Parbat. It is very difficult, but it is the most intense experience. And always after such experiences, when I was back among people, I felt I had been reborn.
Reinhold MessnerRead
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Steven PressfieldRead