Any obsession is dangerous.
Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.
Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.
I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.
People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.
I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.
We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.
My brother always teases me about my forehead: 'I could eat off it!'
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.
I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.
I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.
I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.
I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.
The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me
I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your self-consciousness, you can’t really be present in a situation. For example, if you’re at The Louvre, but you’re thinking about how much you hate your jeans, you’re not really at The Louvre. So in your memory, when you look back, you’re always going to be like, “I was wearing those jeans I hated”. And you’re not going to remember anything else.
Now my body is really womanly - a little too much so. It's someting I can fall back on. When I don't know what else to do, I stick my chest out.
Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.
To Craig's [ Brewer] credit, I felt totally safe on the set [of Black Snake Moan] . And because I felt safe, Sam[L.Jackson] had to protect me. He got upset at all the physical stuff Craig wanted me to do. When I start doing stuff like that, all the screaming and running, I kinda go out of my head. I'm not necessarily in my own body anymore.
I'm not perfect-looking and I don't say the right things, I'm a little different, nothing really special, but I guess I come across as a little more real to people and that comes through on the screen. I know I look young, but with the right make-up I can look older. I definitely feel older.
I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.
I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.
I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.
Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.
We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.
