Quotes

Cynicism isn't smarter; it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

[about her song "Daddy"] "I was seven years old and went to a friend's house for dinner. (...) The father came and turned the TV off and punished the children because they weren't allowed to watch black people on TV."

We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.

We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend.

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature but by your approach.

People think I'm some kind of hippie. I don't even recycle.

I rather see the world from another angle.

Find pleasure in common things. Whether it's just the way the sunlight is streaming in the window or how an orange tastes when you're really hungry, you'll find you get little, happy lifts throughout the day.

[on why she has not fixed her teeth] I just don't like pain. I never wanted braces... People have always loved my snaggletooth, which is hilarious. It should be my logo! I've never felt like it didn't make me sexy.

[on Ride with the Devil (1999)] I asked [the director], 'Why me? You could've had anyone you wanted'. And he said, 'You have period teeth'. So I got the job because I was the only actress in Hollywood who hadn't gotten her teeth fixed!

I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.