I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.

I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen.'

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I should probably never describe myself as adorable.

I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Many fires burn below the surface.

It is beautiful in Vancouver; let's face it. I mean, you have the ocean. There's mountains.

My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.