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 goin…

- Judy Holliday

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…

- Judy Holliday

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

- Judy Holliday

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

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 an…

- Judy Holliday

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

- Judy Holliday

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

- Judy Holliday

In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-ey…

- Judy Holliday

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

- Judy Holliday