Judy Davis
Judy Davis
Judy Davisis an Australian film, television and stage actress. An eight-time AACTA Award winner, she won two BAFTA Awards for her role as Sybylla Melvin in the 1979 film My Brilliant Career, and received Academy Award nominations for A Passage to Indiaand Husbands and Wives. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner; for Serving in Silence, the title role in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, and The Starter Wife...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth23 April 1955
CityPerth, Australia
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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.
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just as soon as they send us the equipment we're hoping in about a month.
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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'?
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I didn't want to air dirty laundry, ... and on Friday, 45 days was up.
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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.
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I feel like the voters made their decision.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.