Quotes by Ashley Judd

• Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.
• More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.
• When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.
• No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.
• I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.
• People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.
• It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
• Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
• Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued.
• When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
• Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.
• You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.
• I've always been crazy for the American songbook.
• I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.
• Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
• Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.
• It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
• I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.
• A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.
• And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.
• And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.
• Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.
• Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.
• I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.
• I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
• I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.
• I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
• I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.
• I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
• I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.
• I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.