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

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.

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.

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.

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

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

You'll never be greater than yourself.

When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.

I'm a very cheap date.

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.