If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.

No one enjoys being equal.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

I got the swag and it's pumping out my ovaries

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli