Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.

What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want to remember.

I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.

Quest assignments are never wrong.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.