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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.
Judy Davis
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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.
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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.
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Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.
Judy Davis
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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.
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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.
Judy Davis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
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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.
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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.
Judy Davis
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