Quotes by Judy Holliday - Page 1

It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Winning
Meant
Oscar
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We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Funny
Inspirational
Sail
Sailing
Wavering
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Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Friendship
Friends
Betray
Betrayed
Friend Betrayal
Lovers
You
Right
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People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Dresses
Hard Times
People
Time Dress Me
Classy
Gal
Hard Time
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I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Hips
Loose
Swing
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The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Accent
Test
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If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything
Judy Holliday / Actress
Audience
Handle
Nightclubs
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If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Audience
Handle
Nightclub
Successfully
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Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.
Judy Holliday / Actress
New York
Pages
Want
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I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Hair
Use
Voice
Literate
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I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Born
Legs
Losing
Belong
Bred
Everytime
Leg
New Yorker
Yorker
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Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?
Judy Holliday / Actress
Easy
Easy Way
Hard Work
Thinking
Way
Course
Who Am I
Work Hard
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I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Wonderful Things
All Day
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When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Dawn
Remembered
Always Me Simple
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I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Actors
Dozen
Five
Instant
Six
Trying
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I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Actresses
Cry
Hated
Ideas
Actress
Afterwards
Performance
Throw
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Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Expression
People
Theatre
Seriously
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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Composer
Facts
Giving
Overlooked
Authors
Composers
Performance
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You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Blonde
Dumb
Equipment
Extraordinary
Play
Smart
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We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Clubs
Owners
Paid
Prestige
Accordingly
Work Money Great
Gained
Great Deal
Hide
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Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Movie Business
Analyst
Wanting
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I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Book
Boxes
Candy
Cereal
Hands
Labels
Toothpaste
Ate
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He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!
Judy Holliday / Actress
Great Way
Maintain
Sidetracked
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I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Convinced
Hate
Important
Invaluable
Painful
Show Business
Experience Business Learning
Hating
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They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Trick
Quieter
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In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Dog
Expression
Looks
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It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Acting
Hollywood
Mark
Okay
Print
Tough
Who Cares
Hit
Cares
Technically
First One
Out Here
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I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home
Judy Holliday / Actress
Home
Personality
Style
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I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Accomplished
Approach
My Own
Somebody
Skin
Nobody
Eliminate
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I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Anxious
Bargaining
Columbia
Dollars
Hollywood
Yesterday
Time Best Money
Best Time Money
Dollar
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I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Chance
Acting
Here I Am
If I Could
Meant To Be
Study
Wanted
Writing
Days
Meant
Directing
Guess
Suppose
Quit
Waited
While
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I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Attorney
Instance
Names
Organization
Past
Subversive
Attorney General
Essentially
Foremost
In The Past
Lent
Listed
Member
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I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.
Judy Holliday / Actress
Smile
Fear
Awe
Idols
Muscles
Nervous
Ready
Tense
Thinking
Automatically
Smile Face People
Idol
Stretch
Whenever
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