 "When I told my mom I wanted to act, her immediate response was, 'No, no, no, no.' When I asked her why she said, 'You love to read books. Become an anthropologist.' Then I said, 'Mom, I'm going to become an actress no matter what you say.' It's funny because now my mother tells interviewers that she knew I was going to become an actress since I was a little  girl."
“Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they’re 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 you’re gonna hear it.”
"Music became a part of our lives when I was so young, that if I’d been interested in it, I probably would’ve exhibited that inclination at four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years old. I never did. And I don’t think anyone, especially after having heard my voice, would be remotely disappointed that I didn’t become  a singer."
"We were always told that we were special and different, and kids who are told they’re special and different can become physicists or botanists or anything. Being told one is special tends to breed a sense of potential for extraordinary and rare achievements. We’re all pretty acquainted with the odds against actually making it in show business, but the constant benediction made it seem like it was the naturally ordained path."
 "Wanting to be an actor was embarrassing, unlike being a nurse or a fireman or something. There’s no sanctioned definition of acting. What comprises it is mysterious. What it takes is elusive to define. I knew I had all this stuff inside me, all these urges and impulses, and this love for it. On the outside, being an actor appears to be something really different from what I felt it was internally, and up until actually busted the big move to California, I was waxy that acting consisted of having your picture taken in front of a good  restaurant in Los Angeles."
"Somebody once asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, “Me, but more so.” And by that, I meant that I wanted to continue to have the variety in my adult life that I was privileged to have as a child. I happened to have been born in Los Angeles and I have accrued the most time in Kentucky. My family has made its home in Tennessee since 1979, and we also did a  couple of years in Marin County [California]. There’s a marvelous synchronicity in my life despite having moved around a lot. In the end, I graduated from the same high school in eastern Kentucky to which my mother and aunt and uncle went. I really believe that I’m designed to be an actor with the immutable facts of this lifestyle – it seems as though what could potentially have been a hardship has actually been sugarcoated for me because of all my experiences."
 "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. And that gives me a great adrenaline rush, because I like the challenge of doing it the way they want it done. If they ask me to do it, I can get to a place where I can deliver completely what they’re looking for – with  my own oomph."
"I loved going into my mother’s closet and trying on her secondhand forties dresses. While my girlfriends dressed as ladybugs at Halloween, I came as a full-grown woman in cocktail attire. By fifth grade I had bought pearlized mauve and gray Borghese eye shadow."
"Everyday you have a certain amount of feelings that come from an untouchable place. Your feelings are your responsibility and lead to your choices. It's like that line in a poem. I am the captain of my own soul. As my own captain, I feel like my life is unfolding the way it should.."
"Most of the time, I don't find fame scary. I actually don't think about that. I just hope people love the movies. But the fallout which is fame can be a tricky thing. I do want to have a life"
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Ashley Judd grew up dirt poor in Kentucky and is the daughter and sister of country music stars Naomi and Wynonna Judd. She is described by her own mother as "an intellectual pin-up". Ashley has portrayed a wide array of characters onscreen that possessed a fierce determination, coupled with an alluring sensuality. Whether she was playing a Southerner starting over in her breakthrough role in Ruby in Paradise in 1993, to a pre-fame Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean & Marilyn in 1996, or a kidnap victim who manages to elude her captor in Kiss the Girls in 1997, Ashley has delivered strong, beautiful, delicate and forthright performances that impressed critics and audiences alike. 
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