I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.

I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

Systems die; instincts remain.