Judy Garland Quotes

I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

Judy Garland

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• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Dead
  • Forgotten
  • Audiences

• Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Happy
  • Care
  • Audiences

• To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Poets
  • Audiences

• When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Songs
  • Audiences
  • Arrangements

• I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • World
  • Why
  • Earth

• Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

  

  Mary Astor
  • People
  • Tired
  • Horse

• Popularity matters a lot, as at the end of the day, the love of your audiences can make you win.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Day
  • End
  • Audiences

• There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • King
  • Audiences
  • Sources

• I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Audiences
  • Writes

• You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Audiences
  • Spectrum

• Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Music
  • Mindset
  • Crowd

• Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Story
  • Effects
  • Audiences

• Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Films
  • Audiences
  • Affect

• Audiences have kept me alive.

  

  Judy Garland
  • Audiences

• I struggle on many fronts on having to move to a different level, having to cater to constantly evolving audiences.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Struggle
  • Audiences
  • Different level

• The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest American and international audiences is the love story between Nicolas and Cecelia that's a metaphor of today's occidental couple, namely the women in the shadows who carry their husbands into the spotlight, but the man is so absorbed with work so the woman leaves him for another man.

  

  Xavier Durringer
  • Public
  • Audiences
  • Spotlight

• Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.

  

  Georgina Haig
  • Ways
  • Audiences
  • Entertained

• Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.

  

  Gene Lees
  • Deserve
  • Performances
  • Audiences

• We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.

  

  Stjepan Hauser 2Cellos
  • Audiences
  • Showing
  • Cello

• I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.

  

  David Finckel
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Present

• There's no better exercise than dancing. 'Dancing with the Stars' is amazing. I used to take it for granted, but the three months you spend on the show, with that grueling regimen, you just shed weight. You can eat anything you want and it doesn't stick.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Amazing
  • Better
  • Exercise

• I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Special

• I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

  

  Judy Garland
  • Audiences