"Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole."

“I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.”

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”

“I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.”

“when love is strong enough it can even cause Fate to change her course”

“Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.”

Source : Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.17, Vintage

“I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.”

Source : "James McAvoy and Rebecca Hall Interviewed - 'Starter For Ten'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 21, 2007.

“Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.”

“It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.”