I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

What I really love about the Playboy bunny outfit, is it's all about a woman's silhouette.

You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

If you want to do something, you find a way.

All I've ever needed is myself.

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.

Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

When you walk into a room,” he said softly, “the air changes.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?

So much to say, yet no words would ever be enough.