Ashley Judd (Actor)

"I have raised two very independent, strong-willed women. Wynonna and I happen to agree on issues in the entertainment industry regarding nudity, sex and violence. Ashley is much more liberal." - mother, Naomi Judd in USA Today, Aug. 16, 1999

"I know when I'm working on a performance, I'll go sideways for a while before I go straight up. If I'm trying something in a take and it's not working for me, I will absolutely exhaust the idea in myself before a change will occur to me. And I almost need to do that. It's the way my neurons work." - Judd quoted in Interview magazine, September 1998

"I'm very similar to my mother and sister, but in ways that may not be readily apparent." - Judd to Vanity Fair magazine, April 1996

"Judd's strengths come across particularly well onscreen. She is extremely beautiful and can handle physical roles. She has a unisex quality" - Philip Kaufman who directed Ashley Judd in "Twister" to The San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 2004

"Someone recently told me that there are three kinds of business; God's business, other people's business, and my own business. When I get myself in trouble is when I get involved in the first two. I think that living life on life's terms is a really important slogan for me at the moment." - Judd to Interview magazine, January 2007

"When it came down to it I was fairly nervous. I was too dumb to panic. You know, we actors have fairly healthy egos: 'Oh sure, I can do that, no problem. Gain 30 lbs., sing a song, ride a horse, jump off a building, no worries.'" - Judd, on singing in her new movie, "De-Lovely" to People magazine, July 6, 2004

As the goodwill ambassador for YouthAIDS, Judd has participated in the making of the 2006 documentary, "Confronting the Pandemic" and the 2007 documentary "India's Hidden Plague"

Described acting as "guts coming from my toenails." - From The New York Times, Oct. 3, 1993