Top 77 Judy Quotes

Many of Judy Blume’s books – which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me – caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they’re widely accepted as an essential part of the children’s literary canon.

I knew the full ‘Judy Garland Carnegie Hall’ double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, ‘Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you’re upset?’

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there’s the other camp, where Judy is the one.

I don’t have TiVo, but I watch a lot of ‘Judge Judy’ – it makes me happy about my life when I see what the people on that show do.

I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland’s daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years – except they had little to do with being a child.

I live in one of Judy Garland’s houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn’t know.

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

Lesley Gore’s part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in ‘It’s My Party,’ savored revenge in the sequel ‘Judy’s Turn to Cry’ and belted the proto-feminist anthem ‘You Don’t Own Me.’

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

I’ve been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon ‘Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend’ – which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics.

Aside from the whole Richard and Judy fame thing, I am incredibly lucky they’re my mum and dad.

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

For me, it’s been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.

When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, funny, intellectual lady – and was able to perform again, which was her life before meeting my father squashed it out.

Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, ‘Judy, we need a title.’

I don’t go anywhere without Judy.

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing – no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn’t happen that much anymore.

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald.

I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

On ‘Richard And Judy’ I dressed up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.

Judy Hopps truly believes in something. We’re not just giving her the run of the story, where we give her everything. Through her actions, she has to prove what she believes in. Personally speaking, I think that’s cool.

Music was always part of my life – my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly – or Judy Garland.

There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn’t ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and I was so confused. I was like, ‘Wait a second, what is Dorothy doing in this movie?’ And that’s when I became fascinated. I didn’t realize there were actors.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother’s heart when they canceled it.

Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone – except maybe my father – that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.

In the late ’90s, we kind of took a sabbatical, and I got an invitation to play with a Japanese band and formed a supergroup called NiNa. It was Yuki from Judy and Mary and Masahide Sakuma from The Plastics, a Japanese equivalent of the B-52s. It went to No. 1 in Japan.

I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: ‘Let’s put on a show.’ That’s what me and Judy did.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

My mom is pretty unimpressed by everything. She loves black-and-white movies, and the only things she watches in color on T.V. are Judge Judy and Geico commercials because she loves the Geico gecko. I think it would mean something to her if I made it in a Geico commercial.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn’t like that, but I read it anyhow.

I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching – great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

There was a moment with ‘Zootopia’ where we said, ‘This is the experiment: let’s try Judy in the role of the protagonist. Let her character introduce us to the city and this world.’ And suddenly, all that struggling and trying to make traction into this story was done.

When we went to Judy Davis and said, ‘We want you to play Judy Garland in the mini-series ‘Life With Judy Garland,’ she was shocked, but we just had an instinct about her.

I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I’ve never played a bimbo. I’ve always played smart, manipulative women. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday, who were not stupid, could play stupid really well, but I don’t do it well.

People are always asking me what it’s like to be Judy Garland’s daughter. It’s hard to be a legend’s child.

I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.

It’s hard for children’s authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

I sit down on my sofa and I turn on ‘Judge Judy.’ That’s my guilty pleasure. I could do a whole day of that.

Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about – what teenagers are actually doing.

I’ve always wanted to do a solo record, and in 1999, I went over to Japan and did a project called NiNa, where I co-wrote with Yuki from Judy and Mary. It just sort of unleashed this realization in me that I could write.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

It’s funny: I don’t know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.

When I’m in full-on writing mode and have the day, I try to get in my office around 10 A.M. and stop once ‘Judge Judy’ comes on at 4, when I quit and come down. Sometimes, I leave her on while I edit – if she can make the tough calls, then so can I.

When I was 18 years old, I moved into Neneh Cherry’s house in Kensal Rise with Judy Blame and our friend Michael Boadi.

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. ‘The Zuni Cafe Cookbook’ by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

I see a lot of women around me who seem to stop developing as individuals after marriage and children. I don’t know what kinds of pressure they’re under, but I think it robs the world of ‘the older version of Judy or Wendy,’ or whomever. It robs the world of the next iteration of them, and I don’t think that’s right.

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.