Judy Holliday Quotes

You only get better by playing.

Whatever it is you do, study it, learn the ins and outs of it, and really work on building your craft.

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and you own it. Of course, you hone it during the first few performances but once you have it honed, not that you must ever assume it is perfect, part of the craft is being able to repeat that.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

A lot of players are naturally talented, but you also have to work to improve yourself.

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

I'm going to keep perfecting my craft and keep getting better.

I've got to perfect my game. Keep working.

It's not about improving when you play; it's every day, in training, you have to work on every aspect of your game, and that's something I've really enjoyed.

I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.