I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there.

Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

The healthy man is the thin man. But you don’t need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; that’s all.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.