Judy Holliday Quotes & Sayings

“Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.”

“Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?”

“If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.”

“It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.”

“Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.”

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

“You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.”