Amber Heard
My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the 'New York Times' one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.Collection: Morning
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.Collection: Fathers
You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.Collection: Diet
I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.Collection: Romantic
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.'Collection: Car
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.Collection: Smile
You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Thankful
I don't feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born.
I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.
Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.
I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.
Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.
Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.
One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.
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.
I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.
I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.
When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.
It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.
I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.
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.
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.
I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.
It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.
I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.
I watch what I eat and drink.
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.
If you want to do something, you find a way.
I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.
You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.
I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.
I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.
I think there's a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone's eye. You're like a robot!
I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.
I've got a soft spot for true individuals.
All I've ever needed is myself.
Injustice can never be stood for.
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.
Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.
I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.
It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.
I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.
Modern cars I don't like so much.
I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.