A good place to start initially would be school plays.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

You know if the U.S. Government wanted to boost the economy there's a simple solution make Black Friday the refund date for your state and federal taxes

God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

The most powerful tool that I can share with you to transform any situation is the power of blessing with love. No matter where you work or how you feel about the place, bless it with love.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.

I'd make my whole collection with just one square of fabric. I wouldn't do anything else; everything had to be made from one square. This is just one example.

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.