After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

Happiness is a tenant that would only move into your life if you consistently focus on the positive side of your life.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

All the poems of our lives are not yet made.

There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.