I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.

I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

Sometimes when you don't care, people are attracted to that.

You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.

I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!

I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.