Judy Garland

"I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."

"Ive never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back."

"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.."

"I wanted to believe, and I tried my damnedest to believe, in the rainbow I tried to get over, and I couldnt! … So what? Lots of people cant!"

"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 wed like each other a little bit more."

"As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", its become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that Im sure thats why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it."

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

"Liza Minelli said she cant sing well enough those "special songs" of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesnt sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said shed "rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama."

"I couldnt sing Mamas special songs. I couldnt do them as well. I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama."

"I dont sing them because I couldnt sing them as well as she did. Id rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody."

"It really scared me to do what Mom did because I never did anything that she did. I promised her that I would never sing her songs, and I kept my promise. "You sing them better than anybody. I dont want to be a second-rate example of you. I want to be a first-rate example of myself."

"My mother once told me never be a second-rate version of somebody else when you can be a first-rate version of yourself."