Im a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.

Be confident, and just do it. It's all about not questioning what everyone else is thinking, since they're probably looking to others to know what is or isn't cool.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

Turquoise is my birthstone; Im a Sagittarius.

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

That's my approach to makeup in general, highlight something, what you love about yourself, but don't cover anything up, or distract from what you actually look like.

Once women find sisterhood, there's nothing stronger.

How can God allow such abominations to flourish unchecked in this world?The answer came in a question, Ruby.God, in reply, asked, "How can you?

We must urgently begin to rebuild the bonds of trust and respect among Americans. Restoring trust in our politics, our press, our markets.

We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

My work was my life, and my life was my work, and there was a kind of blur between reality and what was being created.

I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.

A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.