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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.
- Ashley Judd Quote

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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.
- Ashley Judd Quote

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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

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.
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I very much believe in things unseen, both of positive and destructive energy, and I have never seen The Exorcist through from start to finish. I find it too realistic, frankly, and too disturbing for me. I absolutely believe in spiritual warfare and have experienced it in my life. So I respect Mr. Friedkin's extraordinary success with that, but it's not a picture I'll ever see.
- Ashley Judd Quote (RadioFree November 2006)

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.
- Ashley Judd Quote

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.
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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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
- Ashley Judd Quote

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.
- Ashley Judd Quote

People are always telling me I play strong and capable women and it never really echoed in my head as being entirely true. So I've put some thought into it and ultimately what I've concluded is that in "Ruby in Paradise", "Smoke", "Heat", and all these other pictures, I've played women who are hurt and who are coping. In some instances, they are bright women who have a lot of skills and resiliency and in other instances, like in Norma Jean and Marilyn, they're incredibly emotional and vulnerable. I did "High Crimes" because it's very dramatic. It's an incredible up and down journey and there are a lot of very good scrapes! 
- Ashley Judd Quote (BBC Films)

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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened — being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness. 
- Ashley Judd Quote (Reel.com)

Well, maybe there are one or two things about the double jeopardy concept that are overlooked. I could be charged with violating my probation. I could be charged for illegal possession of a firearm or violating his civil rights if I did kill him. But when you're making a movie, there's only so much that you can do. I know that some people, while thoroughly enjoying it, have said, "It's a little bit implausible." But it's such great fun. 
- Ashley Judd Quote (Reel.com)

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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

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.
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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.
- Ashley Judd Quote

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.
- Ashley Judd Quote