Sasha Grey Quotes

I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

All girls who seemed to have everything going for them. And decided they had nothing.

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

Anybody that believes that Adrian Grenier's name is really Vince should probably watch less TV.

Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that ... "

I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.

I don't like any one race or look or type of guy. My tastes as far as looks go are very diverse. I like guys with scruffy beards and leather jackets, but I also like a clean-cut 'GQ'-type guy, so my tastes are very ranged among somebody who laughs at my dumb jokes, too. I have plenty of them.

What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.

I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.

Half of sex is the dreaming

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I'm like a kid at Halloween.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.

I must confess, I'm not the best cook. I make a mean salsa, as I like hot sauce and, you know, tacos, because I'm a California kid, and that's about it.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want to remember.

Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.

I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.

I'm not very good at parties. I'm a wallflower.

There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?