Judy Holliday Quotes

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

Judy Holliday

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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • College
  • Play
  • Football

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

  

  Jack Black
  • Play
  • Tough
  • Transition

• The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Power
  • Never
  • Twitter

• I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Love
  • Done
  • Goal

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Run
  • Safe

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Money
  • Help

• I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Creative

• Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Pretty
  • Acting
  • Stage

• It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Sick
  • Profound

• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Constitution

• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Help
  • Government

• Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Free

• Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Why
  • May
  • Dead

• I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Think
  • Always
  • I Can

• Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Science

• When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!

  

  Ernie Hudson
  • God
  • Asks
  • Yes

• There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Acting

• When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

  

  David Chase

• When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Up
  • Why
  • Action

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

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Acting
  • Theatre
  • Expression