Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.

Everything in life has a space of balance.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

The reason that one person rejects you will be the exact same reason someone else is drawn to you.

Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.