The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you.

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie.

Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are. Just be yourself, be you, and don't be afraid to speak your mind.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.

I'm an average, everyday girl...

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.

It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.