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

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.

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

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.

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.

I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.