43 Quotes by Judy Holliday

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

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.

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

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

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

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

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

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 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.