Holliday, Judy Filmography

• Bells Are Ringing: Just in Time
  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 50 Years of Funny Females
  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• That's Dancing!
  1985, role: actress , character name: Herself
• That's Entertainment, Part II
  1976, role: actress , character name: Clip from 'Adam's Rib'
• Bells Are Ringing
  1960, role: actress , character name: Ella Peterson
• The 12th Annual Tony Awards
  1958, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• The 11th Annual Tony Awards
  1957, role: actress , character name: Herself - Winner: Distinguished Musical Actress
• Full of Life
  1956, role: actress , character name: Emily Rocco
• The Solid Gold Cadillac
  1956, role: actress , character name: Laura Partridge
• Max Liebman Presents: Kaleidoscope
  1955, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Max Liebman Presents: Promenade
  1955, role: actress , character name: Herself - Guest
• It Should Happen to You
  1954, role: actress , character name: Gladys Glover
• Phffft
  1954, role: actress , character name: Nina Tracey née Chapman
• The Marrying Kind
  1952, role: actress , character name: 'Florrie' Keefer
• Born Yesterday
  1950, role: actress , character name: Emma 'Billie' Dawn
• On the Town
  1949, role: actress , character name: Daisy - Simpkins' MGM Date
• Adam's Rib
  1949, role: actress , character name: Doris Attinger
• Something for the Boys
  1944, role: actress , character name: Defense Plant Welder
• Greenwich Village
  1944, role: actress , character name: Revuer
• Winged Victory
  1944, role: actress , character name: Ruth Miller
• Too Much Johnson
  1938, role: actress , character name: Extra

Famous quotes by Judy Holliday:

"Grumpy Old Men."

"We were wavering around like a ship without a sail."

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

"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."

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

"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 going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile."

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

"It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting."

"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'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."

"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."

"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. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."

"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable."

"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 an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."

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

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

"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."

"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."

"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."

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• The Party's Over - Judy Holliday

The party's over
It's time to call it a day
They've burst your pretty balloon
And taken the moon away.
It's time to wind up
The masquerade
Just make your mind up
The piper must be paid.
The party's over
The candles flicker and dim
You danced and dreamed
Through the night
It seemed to be right
Just being with him.
Now you must wake up
All dreams must end
Take off your makeup
The party's over
It's all over, my friend.
Now you must wake up
All dreams must end
Take off your makeup
The party's over