Judy Garland Quotes

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.

In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?

I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this 'stuff' and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

Stardom is a magical yet freakish situation at times. It's a cliche but very true that at times, you feel so alone, even when you're surrounded by so many people.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.