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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
#Face
#People
#Serious
#Smile
#Woman
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
#Home
#Myself
#Personality
#Skin
#Style
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
- Judy Holliday
#Good
#Nobody
#Overlooked
#Performance
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
#Business
#Experience
#Learning
#Myself
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
#Always
#Candy
#Hands
#Loved
#Words
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
#Acting
#Chance
#I Am
#Meant To Be
#Quit
If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.
- Judy Holliday
#Anything
#Audience
#Handle
#Nightclub
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
#Club
#Great
#Hide
#Money
#Work
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
#Attention
#Dumb
#Extraordinary
#Smart
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
#Best
#Me
#Money
#Time
#Yesterday
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
#I Am
#Knowledge
#Organization
#Past
I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me.
- Judy Holliday
#Day
#Me
#Talk
#Things
#Wonderful
It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.
- Judy Holliday
#Me
#Meant
#Much
#Oscar
#Winning
People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.
- Judy Holliday
#Classy
#Dress
#Look
#Me
#Time
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
#Entertainment
#Look
#Tough
#Until
#Which
Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?
- Judy Holliday
#Easy
#Way
#Who Am I
#Why
#Work
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
- Judy Holliday
#Betray
#Friends
#Friendship
#Right
#You
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