Quotations and phrases

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.
-- Judy Davis

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.
-- Judy Davis

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.
-- Judy Davis

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.
-- Judy Davis

I've avoided a lot of publicity over the years because I find it very hard to be articulate about either myself or work that I've done.
-- Judy Davis

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
-- Judy Davis

It's like you're getting ready to go to Cinderella's ball, and then, when you lose, it's like you wake up and realize you're not Cinderella.
-- Judy Davis

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.
-- Judy Davis

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.
-- Judy Davis

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.
-- Judy Davis

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.
-- Judy Davis

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
-- Judy Davis

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

One woman did come on to me when I was 19 or 21. I got such a terrible shock because it just came out of left field. That's the only time in my life.
-- Judy Davis

This is government. There is no entertainment.
-- Judy Davis

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
-- Judy Davis

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.
-- Judy Davis

When you're playing a real person, it is perhaps easier for the writers to pin that character better in their writing.
-- Judy Davis

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