Holly Golightly famous quotes

04-17-2025

There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience. That's not to say all the songs are biographical, because sometimes it's what I've seen in others' lives.
-- Holly Golightly

#Song #Writing #Sometimes
No... the blues are because you're getting fat or because it's been raining too long. You're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
-- Holly Golightly

#Rain #Mean #Long
But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
-- Holly Golightly

#Littles #Privilege #Proof
I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try and get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego, tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
-- Holly Golightly

#Morning #Stars #Mean
You mustnâ€™t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until theyâ€™re strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.
-- Holly Golightly

#Running #Strong #Heart
You know those days when you get the mean reds?
-- Holly Golightly

#Mean
Thursday! It canâ€™t be! Itâ€™s too gruesome!
-- Holly Golightly

#Thursday
Iâ€™ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just canâ€™t go to Sing Sing with a green face.
-- Holly Golightly

#Girl #Mean #Looks
Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.
-- Holly Golightly

#Thinking #Tacky #Diamond
Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.
-- Holly Golightly

#Girl #Wrecks #Shade
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.
-- Holly Golightly

#Cancer #Heart
The mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is.
-- Holly Golightly

#Mean #Sweat #Hell
I'm just crazy about Tiffany's!
-- Holly Golightly

#Crazy
If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.
-- Holly Golightly

#Real #Cat #Names
Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's.Â Calms me down right away.
-- Holly Golightly

#Doe #Calm
Years from now, years and years, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilian brats. Because yes, they must see this, these lights, the river -- I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
-- Holly Golightly

#New York #Light #Years

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