As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.

Never let anyone silence your voice.

One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and that's what she's fighting against.

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.

The best players want to play in the best competition.

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

Instead of asking Him to remember you, why not pray to find comfort and value where He has taken you.