If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic. That would be the worst thing in the world for me.

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.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, love like Jesus, serve like Jesus but don't hand yourself over to the enemy like Him.

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

Of course, Bronx is also useful as a kind of living personality test. If Bronx likes you, it's a [darn] good sign.

I wasn't at all trying to be skinny, My Mom is Jayne Mansfield, I'm allowed to have curves.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.