Top 50 Ashley Judd Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Self care isn’t selfish. It’s self esteem.”

— Ashley Judd

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2. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

3. “God doesn’t make mistakes and timing unfolds as it should.”

— Ashley Judd

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

— Ashley Judd

5. “Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don’t report it as much.”

— Ashley Judd

6. “I have a very ecumenical faith. I have a very inclusive faith. There’s a quote I love from recovery literature that says, “The realm of the spirit is roomy and broad. It is open to all.” I’ve absolutely staked my life on that.”

— Ashley Judd

7. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

8. “My vocation is to make my life an act of worship.”

— Ashley Judd

9. “Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.”

— Ashley Judd

10. “I have a lot of love to give, and when I give that love and others are able to receive it and show me their vulnerability, I believe that God inhabits that space, which means I basically hang out with God a lot, and that’s why I feel hopeful.”

— Ashley Judd

11. “The way things happen on social media is so abusive and everyone needs to take personal responsibility for what they write and not allowing this misinterpretation and shaming culture on social media to persist.”

— Ashley Judd

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

— Ashley Judd

13. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

14. “I get lonely when I’m a Playstation widow.”

— Ashley Judd

15. “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

16. “I’d just as soon freeze to death.”

— Ashley Judd

17. “Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.”

— Ashley Judd

18. “Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.”

— Ashley Judd

19. “Everything I’ve done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.”

— Ashley Judd

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20. “The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant objectification is what this conversation allegedly about my face is really about.”

— Ashley Judd

21. “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

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

— Ashley Judd

23. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

24. “It’s up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.”

— Ashley Judd

25. “No, I don’t tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.”

— Ashley Judd

26. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

27. “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.’”

— Ashley Judd

28. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

29. “And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan – I am just the most notorious one.”

— Ashley Judd

30. “I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.”

— Ashley Judd

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

— Ashley Judd

32. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

33. “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

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

— Ashley Judd

35. “The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that’s directed at me in social media.”

— Ashley Judd

36. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

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

— Ashley Judd

38. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

39. “It’s funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It’s like being backstage and hoping you don’t trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.”

— Ashley Judd

40. “I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it’s time to have kids.”

— Ashley Judd

41. “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

42. “Yeah, I’ve had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.”

— Ashley Judd

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

— Ashley Judd

44. “I’ve always been crazy for the American songbook.”

— Ashley Judd

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

— Ashley Judd

46. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

47. “I’ve been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.”

— Ashley Judd

48. “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.”

— Ashley Judd

49. “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

50. “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