Quotes About Individuality

You've got to listen to yourself, do what you think is best. Because if you listen to the critics, you might be going in all different directions.

My work is not directly about the social or political.

There is no way I'll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn't do it. There is no way I could ever do it because my musical process is about being directly involved with whatever I'm going through in life.

The last thing on earth I wanted to do was make a movie that plays directly to a sort-of frat boy audience, you know?

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

Every director is completely different.

Every director is so different from every other one.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

Sexuality, desirability has nothing to do with body type. It has to do with how you feel from within. I was at my fattest best in 'The Dirty Picture,' and I was called the most desirable. So there you go. I am quite well-endowed, so I have no complaints.

I'm a boots girl. I always wear boots. They only look better when they get dirty.

I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.

You have to just figure out how to let it roll off of you, because no matter who you are or what you do, somebody's always going to disagree with something that you're doing or saying or something that you think or believe.

When you disagree with somebody else, they often tend to get very defensive. But that doesn't stop me from doing the kind of work that I want to do.

No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

If I disappoint someone, it's their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don't know me. I can't control what they want.