Fairuza Balk Quotes

• "I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color."
• "I had a hard time in my teens. It's a shock to realize you suddenly have to look like Christy Turlington. Everyone expects you to have long legs and big breasts at thirteen. I wasn't very tall but I had a voluptuous body, to put it politely."
• "I think what happens is that people who can't vent their rage seek scapegoats. Also for these young guys, a lot of it is hormonal. When you're in a room full of them, it's like testosterone city -- it's crazy. It's like there're chemicals in the air and they get off on them."
• "I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world."
• "I was worried, I just couldn't relate to those neo-Nazi white power groups who hate everybody who isn't a white protestant. Those feelings were alien to me, so I went and found several groups of skinheads and hung out with them and tried to find out why they feel that way."
• "Skinhead women are expected to stay at home making babies and cooking food. But if it makes them happy, so be it."
• "As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and when my head came out he says that I looked right into his eyes and that my eyes were the color of electric turquoise and in Persian the word for turquoise is Fairuza, it also means Sacred or Precious one....don't ask me..."