Ashley Judd Quotes

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.

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

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

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

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

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

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

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

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.

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

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

When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, 'Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.'

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

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

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

Self care isn't selfish. It's self esteem.

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.

I'd just as soon freeze to death.

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

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

I have said countless times that unless you are delivering a product and service that is really needed and unless you are doing it really well, you don't stick around for 80 years.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.

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

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

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