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.

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

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.

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 Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.