American Quotes

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

I highly recommend tantric sex workshops.

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.

Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.