I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

I walk wherever my errands take me.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.