I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

About 10, 000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

Your life is very different from mine. For one, you can transform into a wolf.” “I can, ” she agreed. “And you live with a vampire and gargoyle. That’s not the typical human way, is it?

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.