I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

There are two kinds of truth

If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace?

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.