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

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

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.
Ashley Judd

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

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.
Ashley Judd

Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued.
Ashley Judd

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.
Ashley Judd

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
Ashley Judd

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.
Ashley Judd

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

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.
Ashley Judd