Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Alicia Silverstone

My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

I hate to shop.

I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.

What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career.

I think people want love in their lives.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

I'm always looking for inspiration.

I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.

I never count calories, but I eat so well.

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it.

Clothes make me dizzy.

People think, 'Wow, you're an actress, so people must be really nice to you and kiss your ass.' NOBODY kisses my ass.

I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.

I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.

There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy.

I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

I don't have time for friends.

Yoga makes me feel really sexy.

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.

I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.

Being vegan just gives you such great karma.

I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother.

I've had so many crushes on gay boys.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

I was a foodie and I continue to be a foodie.

I'm so comfortable and happy with the woman that I am.

When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet.

It's important to see what we can do to make a difference, but it's more important to me to do it every single day.

Not that I say,"Oh,I'm not going to associate with certain people.," but I have my world,and I only want to be around people who I feel stimulated by. I have to be honest I do have a new quest: I want to meet more vegetarians,people who are more like minded. There's something real neat about that feeling. It makes you feel so settled to know there's somebody else sitting right there,being so passionate about what I'm passionate about. I don't want to be around selfish people. I try to keep myself surrounded by deep people who will move me.

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.

I like it all. I love getting inside of people's heads and playing what drives people and what makes them do what they do. That's always been what's most interesting to me about being an actor. The analyzing of what's happening, but even more so, just letting it all go and playing is fun. I love just seeing what comes out of you.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.

Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly challenged’?

Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.

I know what it feels like to be hurt,and I don't want to cause that pain to any other person or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb ourselves in order to make money or to feel better about ourselves, such as with cosmetics or food. We say to ourselves, I'm going to use this animal. I'm going to say it doesn't have much worth so that I can allow myself to do these cruel things. And that just isn't fair.

Being vegan truly is the secret to my life's joy and peace. I feel physically and spiritually better than I could have ever imagined knowing that I am doing everything I can to reduce animal suffering with simple lifestyle choices like being vegan, never wearing any products made from animals (like wool and leather), and buying only from companies that NEVER test their products or ingredients on animals.

My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering.

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.

I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.

I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier homes, but they treat them more like furniture.

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful.