Garland: "It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold."

Garland: "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."

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

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

Garland: "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."

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

Garland: "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."

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

Garland: "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."

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

Garland: "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."

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

Garland: "I can live without money, but I cannot live without love."

Garland: "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."

Garland: "If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?"

Garland: "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."

Garland: "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

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."

Garland: "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."