Reporter: "I understand you have a very large gay following, Miss Garland." Judy: "I couldn't care less. I sing to people!"

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

"Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And 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 - next year at this time - we'd like each other a little more."

"[MGM] had us working days and nights on end. They'd give us pep-up pills to keep us on our feet long after we were exhausted. Then they'd take us to the studio hospital and knock us cold with sleeping pills... Then after four hours they'd wake us up and give us the pep-up pills again so we could work another seventy-two hours in a row."

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

"She was the real Wicked Witch of the West." (On her sadistic stage mother)

"I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."

"I wanted to believe and I tried my damnest to believe in the rainbow that I tried to get over and couldn't. So what? Lots of people can't..."

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

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.

"My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine. When I was put under stock contract at Metro and had a steady income for the first time, we lived in a four-unit apartment building. I suggested to Mother that we buy it as an investment and rent the other three apartments. She hit me in the mouth and invested the money in a nickel mine in Needles, California, that has never been found. We never got a nickel back."