I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

Mediocrity is underrated.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

My mother is a beauty.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.

Everyone has to do 20 push-ups for the mellophones shorts.

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?

I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.