For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

My mom and dad, you're my heart, thank you for keeping me going all these years and never letting me give up.

We don't have to push each other out of the way, because the universe will push us out of the way, or push us towards our goals when it's time.

If you have to go back through your day in your head, try to go back to only the good things. Look at those, and what you did well. Otherwise, life kind of passes you by.

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not get it. I feel like it's worth the ask.

Practice bravery every day and the self-worth will come.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.

Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.