Ashley Judd Quotes

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

We want you to find that thing that will make your life better.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.