Judy Holliday quotes
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“Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.”
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“Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.”
-- Judy HollidaySource : "Fictional character: Billie Dawn". "Born Yesterday", www.imdb.com. 1950.
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“If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything”
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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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“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 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 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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“I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.”
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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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“We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.”
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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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“I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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
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