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

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

I'm one of those people who loves to fly.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.