I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!

Maddy pressed her fingers to her lips, a smile blooming there. The man could kiss like the devil. Hot, passionate, demanding. Holy hell. Ronan McGuire was a force of nature, and equally dangerous.

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I’m already thinking glamour.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

A warrior of light needs both patience and speed. He treats each situation as if it were unique.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.