Judy Davis Quotes
Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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I already am a product.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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I am married.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.
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We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
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I played with a fracture in my foot for seven months without knowing it.
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Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
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Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!
