I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

In my work and what I do, I am Queen of the Universe every day!

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.