I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.
To me, the most important thing – aside from meeting people’s physical needs, whether that’s education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads – is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.
And I feel faster than the speeding light.
For me, it’s all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It’s almost like you have to be in a prison.
And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn’t fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.
I think they were scared of me because I was different.
I’ve always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that’s the way it goes. I’m five-foot four-and-a-half-inches – that’s actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything’s normal, in the books. It’s the things inside me that make me not average.
I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you’ll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.
If I can’t be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don’t really see the point of being on this planet.
I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated – black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they’re all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board.
People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.
Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I’m totally in control.
I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can’t get rid of me.
Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can’t think of any successful actresses who didn’t play the game. There’s a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.
I have great respect for Sean Penn. It’s like most relationships that fail. It’s not one thing, it’s many thing that go on over a period of time.
If you’re going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.
Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?
Having money is just the best thing in the world.
I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
I’ll rest when I’m dead. I’m hungry and life is short!