Alicia Silverstone (Actor)

"Alicia makes this idea make sense to me,'' Star tells Variety. "You believe her as someone who believes in other people's happiness. She has a very empathetic quality and innate sweetness and loveability to her. There's this grown-up, adult persona that I don't think people are quite as familiar with."---Darren Star talking about her role in "Miss Match" to EWonline, September 2003.

"For close to two years I've been vegan, and it's turned my whole life around. I can sleep better, I have more energy, my skin is really clear, and my body's in the shape it needs to be in. And being vegan, I love food more, because animal products numb your taste buds. It's not a joke that a lot of people are lactose intolerant. They open them up and there are blocks of cheese inside them that they can't digest. I mean, have you seen how they make milk? Ugh!"---Silverstone to Entertainment Weekly, June 1, 2000.

"I mean, a lot of times I wonder, What drugs are these people taking that allow them to stay alive? My perception of [Hollywood] is that it is very cold and very dry and very dark. But the people, they always have a smile on their face, though I always wonder, How deep in that smile is the knife? I just don't understand how jobs could rule people's lives. I don't really understand how you could think, I'm going to backstab, cheat, harm, just to get ahead in a business. I mean, I guess in caveman world it happened, but it happened to survive!"---Alicia Silverstone in VANITY FAIR, September 1996.

"My lifestyle really allows me to feel healthy as I'm being pulled left and right and up and down and my brain's falling out. I feel like as long as you can get to yoga, eat really good, feel healthy and have love in your life, it's all good."---Silverstone quoted in Moveline's Hollywood Life, May 2004.

In response to the people in Hollywood who take exception to Silverstone's closeness to her agent-turned-manager Carolyn Kessler: "My relationship with Carolyn is a marriage. I'm going to have her as a friend forever. Carolyn supported me being who I am. She'd rather I be happy than successful as an actress. That's been really helpful. I don't trust anybody here [in Hollywood]. People are greedy and insensitive and eager to be successful in a really nasty way, almost where everybody's a mini-Hitler."---Silverstone quoted in PREMIERE, August 1997.

On her role of Batgirl in the ill-fated "Batman & Robin" (1997), Silverstone told the Web site Mr. Showbiz (mrshowbiz.go.com): "I knew the day I started shooting it wasn't going to be a good movie. I don't regret it; it's just a silly, huge movie. This movie was a huge machine; it was bigger than any actor in it. But you can't have a film without a story, and that was my problem with it. I thought I'd be really cool, like Catwomanish, not the same character, but important and interesting and complex, and have idiosyncrasies. [Instead] I was like this big fashion show-type machine. It worked out really well though; George Clooney was really nice and that was cool."

She is a passionate animal rights activist, affiliated with PETA in New York and Last Chance for Animals in California.

Silverstone has participated in The Forum, a so-called "self-improvement" organization akin to est.