I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Intuition is our knight in white, shining armor, there to help us claim our kingdom in the bold time of life.

A finger beckons.My choice is to turn away.It is a mistake.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.