I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. — Judy Holliday Born Copy Share Image
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. — Judy Holliday Books Copy Share Image
It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one.… — Judy Holliday Acting Copy Share Image
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously. — Judy Holliday Acting Copy Share Image
I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose. — Judy Holliday Girl Copy Share Image
We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and… — Judy Holliday Clubs Copy Share Image
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my… — Judy Holliday Attorney Copy Share Image
I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books,… — Judy Holliday Book Copy Share Image
He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of… — Judy Holliday Actress Copy Share Image
I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward. — Judy Holliday Actresses Copy Share Image
People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal. — Judy Holliday Hard Copy Share Image
I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress,… — Judy Holliday Acting Copy Share Image
Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way? — Judy Holliday Easy Copy Share Image
They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they… — Judy Holliday Entertainment Copy Share Image
I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be.… — Judy Holliday Business Copy Share Image
I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got… — Judy Holliday Anxious Copy Share Image
If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything — Judy Holliday Audience Copy Share Image
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… — Judy Holliday Accomplished Copy Share Image
You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical… — Judy Holliday Attention Copy Share Image
In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to… — Judy Holliday Deals Copy Share Image
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… — Judy Holliday Analyst Copy Share Image
Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times. — Judy Holliday Decision making Copy Share Image
