Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.

I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true.

I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.