I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

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

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.

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.

Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Leadership is made for service.

People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.