Quotes from Ashley Judd

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

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

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

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.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

God doesn't make mistakes and timing unfolds as it should.

Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

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.

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.

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

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.

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.

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.

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 that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.

Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.

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.

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.

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.