Judy Holliday Quotes

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.

I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.

I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

You know 'Ninotchka?' I recommend it. It's kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools, so it kind of chops along.

I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be 'Stephanie Plum', and then one day, I got that phone call saying that it was Katherine.

I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.

As a Scotsman, my accent can sometimes be difficult for people to understand.

No one can understand my accent!