Quotables
“As a kid, I was skinny as a beanpole, l had good skin, though. When I got a pimple in the eighth grade I told everyone I got bit by a red ant, and where I came from, they believed me.”
“I get my hair done if I’m going to a big event, but generally I’m happy with your basic $1.50 cut. Hair is a nuisance. I just wash it, put barrettes in, then leave it.”
“I think that the women (who say they have sex six times a week) are lying just like men who say they don’t masturbate are lying.”
“Everyday you have a certain amount of feelings that come from an untouchable place. Your feelings are your responsibility and lead to your choices. It’s like that line in a poem. I am the captain of my own soul. As my own captain, I feel like my life is unfolding the way it should..”
“Most of the time, I don’t find fame scary. I actually don’t think about that. I just hope people love the movies. But the fallout which is fame can be a tricky thing. I do want to have a life”
“People coming up and knocking on the bus door on race weekend is not my favorite thing.”
“I enjoy being married. We feel very blessed and we’re having a great time.”
“When I told my mom I wanted to act, her immediate response was, ‘No, no, no, no.’ When I asked her why she said, ‘You love to read books. Become an anthropologist.’ Then I said, ‘Mom, i’m going to become an actress no matter what you say.’ It’s funny because now my mother tells interviewers that she knew I was going to become an actress since I was a little girl.”
“I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.”
“My mother’s into frilly dresses, frilly eyelashes and hairstyles from the 70s. I’m more contemporary. We always seem to argue about that. She wants me to be her clone. But I have to be an individual.”
“I’m a whore for truth!”
“At 18, I went to college and it was the perfect environment for me… To a certain extent I had always been afraid to work as hard as I knew I could, because I had always been told that I was gifted and special. If I had to work hard at something, it meant that I wasn’t already good at it. If I wasn’t good at it, I wasn’t special.”
“Probably once I thought, ‘Okay, I’m just going to have the most rewarding career in the universe, I’m going to have sex with my career.’ That lasted about 30 seconds!”
“You just don’t flaunt your stuff. Mama says it wouldn’t be polite. You don’t talk about your love life or how much money you make or personal things.”
“In the proper venue, attention is fine but not if I’m on the toilet in an airport washroom.”
“You just don’t flaunt your stuff. Mama says it wouldn’t be polite. You don’t talk about your love life or how much money you make or personal things.”
“I have these little talks with myself. I call it an attitude pep talk. I say, ‘Ashley, this is not one of those moments you pray God sends a thunderbolt to make it better. Girl, you just endure.’
“You have to simply be who you are. That is where real happiness comes from”
“I can’t think of anything I want and need that I don’t already have but at the same time, I’m not sated…”
