You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake

Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

I'm a pussycat unless you do something to one of my friends. Then I'll think of unique ways to get back at you. I'm more creative than your average bear.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...

For me to live is Christ and to die is gainPhillippians 1:21

Intimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's kisses and their bright chatter, make the ordinary world a little unreal and very uninteresting.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

I'm pretty adaptable and can adjust to any environment.

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.