Ashley Judd Quotes

I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

I might be more of a tomboy on the ice, but when it comes to fashion and things like that, I'm a total girlie-girl.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally!

People in New York are surprised when I open my mouth.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

Some people remember me for my color; some people remember me as a friend.

I'm definitely a city kid.