A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.
Garland's Palace concert in '51 was a huge success. Then they decided to televise her. Forty million people were going to watch, and she was terrified. The poor creature.
I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.
I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.
I was always terribly shy, so a great thing that acting has done for me has forced me out of myself and made me more generous.
I've avoided a lot of publicity over the years because I find it very hard to be articulate about either myself or work that I've done.
I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
It's like you're getting ready to go to Cinderella's ball, and then, when you lose, it's like you wake up and realize you're not Cinderella.
It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.
Judy Garland died in 1969, and if you evoke her for a second, they still go nuts.
Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.
Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.
Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.
Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.
One woman did come on to me when I was 19 or 21. I got such a terrible shock because it just came out of left field. That's the only time in my life.
When you're playing a real person, it is perhaps easier for the writers to pin that character better in their writing.
To prepare for her role as Judy Garland in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, Judy pored over television footage, biographies and nearly all of Garland's 32 feature films.
Judy is left-handed.
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