Words matter. These are the best Judy Norton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I would like to find a way to do everything I want to do in life.
I want to stay in show business; if show business will have me. Still I’d like people to know that I can do something without wearing bib overalls.
I’m an impromptu cook. It’s fun if it doesn’t take too much time!
I’m still always learning how to grow and improve myself because I want to be the best possible role model.
The first play I was ever in was ‘Cinderella,’ a children’s production in Los Angeles when I was only 8. It was strictly a children’s show which played weekends for about a year and which included such songs as ‘Long Ago and Far Away’ and ‘True Love.’
I always resented having a guardian and the restrictions of going to school at the studio.
I love being outdoors.
I like doing parades, particularly those where a lot of people turn out.
Actually, for several years, I’d been looking to leave L.A. I was getting more and more disenchanted with it; the smog, the traffic.
They treat kid actors more like an object than persons.
My parents are divorced.
I guess I am just too competitive.
I mean, I’m learning more than I could from any acting teacher just by working.
It wasn’t until many years after ‘The Waltons’ when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take on a role within a theater company as a writer and director. I found to my surprise that I really enjoyed it as well.
I had seen an English movie musical production of ‘Cinderella,’ ‘The Slipper and the Rose’ with Richard Chamberlain, and liked it so much I saw it eight or 10 times.
My parents were divorced when I was seven years old and later we kids moved all over first with my mother and then with my father.
I don’t like to cook by recipe. I like being original, trying out ideas, putting together my own dishes.
When you are in a series, there are always people around saying, ‘You should be doing more. You should get more money.’ But I think I did the wise thing staying with ‘the Waltons.’
I don’t get along very well with my father.
I thought Norton-Taylor sounded more interesting than Norton alone. Anyway, people were constantly getting my name wrong when I was Judy Norton. People called me Morton and Martin and other variations.
It’s tough enough handling the teen years in private without all the pressures of work and long hours on the set.
I guess at my core, I’m an artist. And so the opportunity to utilize my imagination, create things and share stories is what makes me happy and fulfills me.
