Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by Judith Light

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Judith Light.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Judith Light

Judith Ellen Light is an American actress. She made her professional stage debut in 1970, before making her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of A Doll's House. Her breakthrough role was in the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1977 to 1983, where she played the role of Karen Wolek; for this role, she won two consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Light starred as Angela Bower in the long-running ABC sitcom Who's the Boss? from 1984 to 1992, and was featured in many other television sitcoms, dramas, and films.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.
People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.
I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight. — © Judith Light
I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight.
The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.
I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself.
To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.
If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.
I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.
But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.
You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.
You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you. — © Judith Light
You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.
I know what it feels like to be an outsider.
Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.
It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me.
You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.
I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.
Women don't realize how powerful they are.
I love being able to make people laugh.
My weight went up and down like a yo-yo.
I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.
Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.
There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
I was different and people made fun of me. — © Judith Light
I was different and people made fun of me.
It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.
We all have our own closets to come out of.
Women don't realize how powerful they are
We all have our own closets to come out of
To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do
It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to the show Transparent, because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic.
The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people
I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair — © Judith Light
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair
You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you
I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.
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