That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.

There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival.

Not another word, not another thought, not another sniffle. If you need to pass gas, I pray you'll clench your backside and keep walking until we are certainly alone.

Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different.

Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.

For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.