I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

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.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

I hardly even leave my own house.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet