Judy Davis Quotes
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.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I have a biology degree, okay?
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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I never really had the intention of being a rock 'n' roller. It's just that all of my best friends were great musicians and they felt sorry for me so they had me. (Much Music 1991).
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.
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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.
