My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

The photo is the most important thing.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.