I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.
You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.
It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
If you want to do something, you find a way.
I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.
The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.
I'm strong. I'm smart. I'm not a victim,' to my detriment.
All I've ever needed is myself.
Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.
I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.
I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws.
Injustice can never be stood for.
I've always lived my life the way I wanted and been honest with myself and everyone around me.
I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
There is a common, puritanical way that we look at things where, if it involves sexuality, somehow the women must be compromised. It's just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality. It's about empowering. It comes down to choices. If the choices are available and they're making that choice, they're not being exploited.
I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.
I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock 'n' roll, but I'd never do any of it in flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe it's a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It's everything I can do not to leave the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.
I'm keeping an open mind as always, because that's what you have to do.
By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.
For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.
You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'
