As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.

Doing the voice for something [cartoon] requires an enormous amount of energy and you really have to use your whole body. It's cool.

I always like an environment where theres lots of women and everyones different.

After Ive enjoyed a floral bouquet to its fullest, I drop a few petals in a bottle with distilled water to create my own soothing toner.

I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.

There aren't a lot of roles in period movies for black people. It sucks because I love that era. But, I love musicals. I love the show Glee, and I wouldn't mind being on that either.

If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all.If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all.

In the joy of others, lies our own.

It’s mostly during times of wilderness experience, that people are willing to accept the lessonsthat wisdom teaches

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.

How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.

You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.