Frances Ethel Gumm, dite Judy Garland, née le 10 juin 1922 à Grand Rapids et morte le 22 juin 1969 à Londres , est une actrice, chanteuse et danseuse
américaine. Elle est considérée par l'American Film Institute comme la huitième meilleure actrice de légende du cinéma. Elle est aussi la mère de la chanteuse et actrice Liza Minnelli. Wikipedia
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
As quoted in Business Etiquette for the Nineties : Your Ticket to Career Success (1992) by Lou Kennedy, p. 8
Variante: Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
Letter to Harold Arlen, as quoted in Over the Rainbow : The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (1991) by Paul Nathanson, p. 340
“You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage.”
LIFE magazine (2 June 1961)
Contexte: You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
“I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.”
Interview, NBC TV (16 March 1961)
As quoted in Judy (1974) by Gerold Frank, p. 566
“I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.”
As quoted in The Observer (18 February 1951)
Garland's annoyed response to a note from Princess Margaret "commanding" her to sing at a party in 1965, as quoted in Princess Margaret : A Biography (1977) by Theo Aronson.
Press Confrence, Sydney Australia (18 May 1964)
