Judy Davis Quotes

(On working with David Lean) There was a touch of the bully about him - he`d take it out on the people who were the weakest and most dependent.

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. It is if you get to play Macbeth or Hamlet. But who wants to play bloody Lady Macbeth or Ophelia? And it struck me that 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.

I was always terribly shy, so a great thing that acting has done for me has forced me out of myself and made me more generous.

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

"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." (on being an Oscar nominee)

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.

Of course, I`m not a celebrity. Never wanted to be one. Never promoted myself as one. I`m an actress. I think there`s a difference. To be a celebrity, one really has to go after it, and want it.

I wish I tanned. It would make everybody happy and get them off my back. But this is the look I was born with, and I`m stuck with it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can`t be bought.

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