Judy Davis Quotations

One woman did come on to me when I was 19 or 21. I got such a terrible shock because it just came out of left field. That's the only time in my life.

I didn't want to air dirty laundry, ... and on Friday, 45 days was up.

I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact.

I feel like the voters made their decision.

I would submit to you that, yes, these events did happen in operating rooms with other people in the room. Do you think that Mr. Aubin raised his hand and said, 'Look guys, look what I'm going to do now. I'm going to touch them'?

just as soon as they send us the equipment we're hoping in about a month.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was, I thought well, I suppose it is.

We (the board) didn't want to do what the commissioners wanted us to do. We felt that the original Ordinance #77 hadn't even had a chance to work yet.

I've avoided a lot of publicity over the years because I find it very hard to be articulate about either myself or work that I've done.

Our daughter has learned her lesson. She learned it the first day she was in county jail. A long sentence is just not appropriate on first-time offenders.

It's like you're getting ready to go to Cinderella's ball, and then, when you lose, it's like you wake up and realize you're not Cinderella.

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

I'm not one to show off. The way I looked at it was that my family liked it, and that was OK with me.

I learned the hard way. I thought I was doing a good job, but the voters spoke.

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.