Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.
My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.
The truth is lived, not taught.
I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
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.
I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.
I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.
If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.
You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
My first shoot was on a rooftop in swimsuits with two plus-size models who were curvy and voluptuous and beautiful, and they taught me so much about being beautiful in any shape or size.
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