Judy Holliday

“I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.”

“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.”

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

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

“I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose.”

“We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.”

“The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.”

“He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!”

“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.”