I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

I've had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

I always keep my dreams so high, that you can keep laughing about it and I can keep growing for it.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don't call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!

I'm a thousand times bigger on the inside than I am on the outside.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.