It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.

This is the miracle of all miracles—when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.

You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted