Even afterwards when you go through a scene and then step off, sometimes you need a minute to just decompress.

Because sometimes listening to something will connect to a feeling, it will allow you to emote subconsciously, and you don't even understand why you're in it.

You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.

There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.

Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

I enjoy being surprised.

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home.

Regardless of the project, whenever you're working on something, the best you can hope for is to be around good people.

I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young. I'll find the next job to keep me busy between seasons.

The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame.

Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.

If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!