Top 100 Holliday Quotes
#1. And right then, staring at Dusty Holliday, Clarisse Haines fell in love.
Kristen Ashley
#2. But, Jesus, Tommy, what do you expect me to say? I grew up with you. When we were kids your fly was open more often than the twenty-four-hour laundromat. If your dick had been a gun you could have outdrawn Doc Holliday.
Bart Yates
#3. And that was when Finley Declan Holliday lost his mind and unleashed hell on Brandon Wannamaker, Jeff Schultz and Troy Piggott.
Kristen Ashley
#4. John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.
Mary Doria Russell
#5. Being with him had given me the ability to face my inner strength and pain and start living again."-Holliday
Christy Pastore
#6. I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.
Val Kilmer
#7. Alice was pretty enough and played piano well, but she was educated in excess of a lady's requirements. She was also possessed of a quiet, stubborn strength of character that had discouraged beaux less determined than Henry Holliday, a Georgia planter ten years her senior.
Mary Doria Russell
#8. I was inspired by Billie Holliday, and I really liked Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top - she looked hot.
Suzi Quatro
#9. At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name." - Attributed to John H. "Doc" Holliday
Mary Doria Russell
#10. I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.
Cindy Morgan
#11. When I found out that I was going to be singing with Jennifer Holliday, I literally freaked out! I grew up listening to her, and I was going to cry because I sang with someone who is a huge inspiration to me.
Jessica Sanchez
#12. I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
Adolph Green
#13. The wolves howl bluer than Billie Holliday, but they don't spoil my song.
Jeanette Lynes
#14. The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
Mary Doria Russell
#15. I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I've never played a bimbo. I've always played smart, manipulative women. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday, who were not stupid, could play stupid really well, but I don't do it well.
Morgan Fairchild
#16. Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me.
Billy Porter
#17. I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
Imelda May
#18. My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
Katharine Hepburn
#19. Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.
Tony Bennett
#20. I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.
Liane Holliday Willey
#21. The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it ... Families will have to get used to only using power when it was available, rather than constantly.
Steve Holliday
#22. I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me.
Judy Holliday
#23. I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.
Jennifer Holliday
#24. Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
Judy Holliday
#25. 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.
Judy Holliday
#26. 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
#27. I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'
Matt Holliday
#28. 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.
Judy Holliday
#29. Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.
Liane Holliday Willey
#30. Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.
Doc Holliday
#31. I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college.
Matt Holliday
#32. Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.
Holliday Grainger
#33. You are not the fat girl. You are voluptuous!...You are an angle descended from the heavens, a goddess of plenty walking among the denizens of hell where stick figures reign supreme.
Alesia Holliday
#34. I believe the relationships and emotions you experience when you have success are the things that last forever.
Matt Holliday
#36. 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.
Judy Holliday
#37. I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going to make it to Heaven on merits and doing good things.
Matt Holliday
#38. Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.
Doc Holliday
#39. I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.
Holliday Grainger
#40. If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, you'll understand what a bad man's reputation is built on. I've had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of
Doc Holliday
#41. I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose.
Judy Holliday
#42. I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.
Matt Holliday
#43. We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.
Matt Holliday
#44. 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.
Judy Holliday
#45. We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.
Judy Holliday
#46. I don't want to be considered a leader based on what people think goes on in the clubhouse.
Matt Holliday
#47. 'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.
Holliday Grainger
#48. There is no normal life, there's just life.
Doc Holliday
#49. I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.
Judy Holliday
#50. A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future.
Jennifer Holliday
#51. I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.
Liane Holliday Willey
#52. I auditioned for a musical, and I can't sing. It was a kid's film musical, not a stage show, so I thought I could get away with it.
Holliday Grainger
#54. I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.
Holliday Grainger
#55. I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.
Holliday Grainger
#56. I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.
Matt Holliday
#57. 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.
Judy Holliday
#58. Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.
Liane Holliday Willey
#60. I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.
Holliday Grainger
#61. It's a terrific book and I can't wait for the movie," says Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, ABC Radio National.
John Holliday
#62. I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.
Judy Holliday
#63. I am not an 'instant' actor ... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.
Judy Holliday
#64. True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
Holliday Grainger
#65. 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.
Judy Holliday
#66. You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.
Holliday Grainger
#67. When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.
Holliday Grainger
#70. I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well. I'd love to be able to do a mixture.
Holliday Grainger
#71. When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.
Judy Holliday
#73. The Lord uses the ordinary and humble things in life to accomplish His purposes - not the mighty and proud.
Bobby Holliday
#74. Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?
Judy Holliday
#75. Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Judy Holliday
#76. Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.
Judy Holliday
#77. We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.
Judy Holliday
#78. I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.
Holliday Grainger
#79. People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.
Judy Holliday
#80. I want to keep things simple and keep my energy focused on moving forward.
Matt Holliday
#81. The more raw, pure emotion you pour into your pages, the more your readers can wring out of them.
Christopher Holliday
#83. I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.
Liane Holliday Willey
#84. I had ballooned out to close to 400 pounds at one point. And in the '80s, we were just beginning to get on video and disco. So therefore, I did not fit in, and my record company let me go because they said, 'Look, you're just not marketable enough with the weight problem.'
Jennifer Holliday
#87. I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.
Jennifer Holliday
#89. When you realize that he just is what he is, and that expecting him to be any better is like expecting the tide to roll back just because you want it to?
Lucy Holliday
#90. I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.
Holliday Grainger
#91. You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.
Matt Holliday
#92. I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.
Matt Holliday
#93. If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.
Judy Holliday
#94. I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.
Matt Holliday
#95. The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.
Jennifer Holliday
#96. 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.
Judy Holliday
#97. The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.
Holliday Grainger
#98. I never really worried about stats in the minor leagues. I was more concerned with getting better and bringing a positive attitude every day.
Matt Holliday
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