"I trust everyone until they give me a reason not to."  

"Ever since I was a child I've loved Tom Jones. It's
 his charisma. It transcends all age groups."

"There's not a downside to being nice, there's a downside
 to being weak."

"It could be a piece of garbage. I have no idea. But it
 meant something to me."

"Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms 
me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and 
I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive. I'm
obsessed with it."
 
"It's hard for me not to always do romantic comedies, because
 I can live there a lot easier. Everything in my life I play 
off with a joke anyway."

"Grace is not a word that's used with me."

"I was a VERY good waitress."
 
"Just because you're an actor, it doesn't excuse you from
 being a good, decent person." 
 
"I need stability, a place where I can dance and play."

"I rarely lose my temper, and only then when someone talks 
down to me, or when I see people treating other people 
with disrespect." 

" I love rock climbing because it makes you feel like you 
have conquered the world. You feel like you're capable of 
doing anything when you have done that."

"I wasn't raised thinking somebody was black or white. My 
best friend in school was black and it didn't register 
until five years ago that there should have been an issue 
there, and it never was." 

"I'd used to say i'd never get married, but now I feel myself
going, 'One day I'd like to find my partner.  My life mate.
Somebody really cool that I can hang with and go to war for."

"Even though carpentry and acting don't seem to fit ... 
one soothes the mind the other the soul."
 
"Everyone told me to pass on Speed. I heard, 'You're not 
going to do the bus movie ... Chuckle, chuckle.' It was 
the industry joke."

"My number one favorite food is Kentucky Fried Chicken, 
extra crispy, with mashed potatoes, biscuits and corn on 
the cob." 
  
"I'm like a shark. If I stop, I'll just die; if I keep 
moving, I'm okay."

"He smelled real nice." (Talking about Keanu Reeves)

"I used to be a snacker, until I met Jason (Patric) who disallowed snacking!"

"Well, he has to look like Bill Pullman, he has to be 
very witty, with a sharp sense of humor and be a really
 good salsa dancer. And he has to be good with a drill,
 good around the house." 

"I'm the kind of person who wants to know how to do it 
all myself. That way, I don't have to call up everybody 
and burden them. But I'm getting to the point now where 
I know how to do it all by myself. I'm at the point where
 I'm like: 'I'm tired of being responsible. Will somebody 
else drive the car please?'" 

"Oh, I'd never tell you in a million years. Do you think 
I'm stupid?!" ... 

"You're not gettin' my handles. I have the same ones that
 I've had from the start, and they seem good and solid. 
Nobody's infiltrated them yet." 

"No, thats why I have this big L on my forehead-for Loser!" 

"I dated an actor for years, now its like- maybe a fisherman.
 Or maybe someone who's a brilliant salsa dancer and a great carpenter. Yeah, thats it!" 

"Everyone told me not to do Speed. I mean, it looked like 
I'd be just 'the girl' But I've learned to do things by instinct."

"Breakups are hard, but yet the great thing that comes from 
that is the revenge. And I know a lot about that, and I have
 one word for any woman whose been dumped: Lycra Lycra Lycra."

"My favorite actors are everyone with the last name 
Hepburn, Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg, Jessica Lange and 
the list could go on for a very long time."

"I never want to give anyone the chance to stereotype me. 
If anyone's going to do any stereotyping around here, it's 
going to be me. I just don't want anyone to do it for me."

"I was young and inexperienced, but I was still smart 
enough to not trust those people, and I insisted on duct 
tape being placed across my private parts. Believe me, you
 don't see anything of mine in that movie. And I don't 
care how famous I get, nobody is ever going to want to 
see that movie. It is a horrible piece of garbage." (About
 Fire on the Amazon)

"I'm a bit odd. I'm a basic person. I like basic food, 
simple tastes. I like things I understand, things (and people)
 I can identify and not have to question their motives. 
My friends and parents are brutally honest and you always 
know where you stand."
 
"I went to high school, did drama, went to New York. 
Packed my car. I knew one person. Got a job in a nightclub 
that turned out to be a drug front. I didn't even know it.
 I had like the best stories. I was mugged. I was held up.
 And nothing ever happened to me! I managed to get out, so
 that anything that could happen, did. The fact that I 
didn't know fear was probably the best thing for me."

"The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees
 up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK."

"I think if you base your choices on money and the 
potential success rate of the film, you are doomed. You do
 it for the love of what you want to do. And I think anything else is a big mistake."