Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may be ugly. You are beautiful.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.