In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.

When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

Acting is my calling, not my career.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoil'd to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.