To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cœur de l’homme, faut-il s’en étonner ? Il n’y a qu’une minute de la vie à la mort.

It was a brave old world.

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.