Judy Davis Quotes

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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• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Need
  • Belief
  • Heroes

• Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Ugly
  • Video Games

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
  • Trust
  • Go For It

• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Film
  • Right
  • Timing

• All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Death
  • Day
  • Criticism

• Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Change
  • Famous
  • Selling

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.

  

  Win Butler
  • Different
  • Mind
  • School

• Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

  

  Brigitte Boisselier
  • Time
  • Technology

• I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Freedom

• I have routines but not superstitions.

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Why

• Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

  

  Bob McDonnell
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.

  

  Paul Walker

• I have tremendous respect for both John Elway and Peyton Manning as people and as quarterbacks in the NFL, but I was not concerned one bit with playing in their shadow.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • People
  • Respect
  • Shadow

• I touch the future. I teach.

  

  Christa McAuliffe
  • Future

• We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Book
  • Opinions
  • Prefer

• 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.

  

  Judy Davis
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Trouble