Judy Holliday Quotes

• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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• I could talk about him all day. He’s one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me.

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• I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

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• I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose.

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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.

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• I’m a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it’s like losing a leg.

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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.

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• It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.

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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.

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• If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

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• Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Judy Holliday (28)

Birth:	21st June, 1921
Death:	7th June, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

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