Judy Holliday Quotes

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

It is very unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

Politicians dare to fail publicly.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

If you want to go into the court of world opinion, you had better go in with clean hands.

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

People will have their guesses and opinions on my character, but anyone that's actually sat down and talked to me knows that I don't have any character issues, any off-the-field issues.

I have paid for things that I had done because I have been in the spotlight.

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

[After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.