Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want to remember.

I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.

I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.