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

• What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

  

  Danah Boyd
  • Happens
  • Audiences
  • Online

• 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

• Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Life
  • Music
  • Death

• The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Justice
  • Judging
  • Constitution

• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Emotions

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

  

  Judy Garland
  • Audiences