Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Do not allow any discouragement in your soul.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I'm a young girl and I want to have fun.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

I like Jeremy Scott, and he has some really dope sneakers.