I don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.

I went jogging up on Mulholland. In the middle of my run I had some form of asthma attack and couldn't even walk. I couldn't get a ride one block to my house. I thought I was going to die.

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.

Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog. I'm capable of a lot more.

I'm a very romantic person.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

Imagine no limitations

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.

She needed this. For the comfort, for the love, for all the glorious things she did not deserve and yet could not stop herself from wanting.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

Push on and faith will catch up with you.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.