Heard: "I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me."

Heard: "I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life."

Heard: "I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look."

Heard: "I've got a soft spot for true individuals."

Heard: "I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot."

Heard: "Injustice can never be stood for."

Heard: "All I've ever needed is myself."

Heard: "I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried."

Heard: "I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in."

Heard: "I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things."

Heard: "I'm looking to find good stories, not big commercial pieces of work."

Heard: "I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there's always someone more beautiful!"

Heard: "I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several."

Heard: "I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on."

Heard: "My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'"

Heard: "It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry."

Heard: "I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car."

Heard: "I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that."

Heard: "School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades."

Heard: "You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are."

Heard: "Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet."

Heard: "You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value."

Heard: "Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do."

Heard: "We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful."

Heard: "Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label."

Heard: "I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s."

Heard: "When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me."

Heard: "I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat."

Heard: "I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race."

Heard: "I don't feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born."