I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.

If you're praying, you're not worrying, and if you're worrying, you're not praying!

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.