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'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.

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

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.

If you find a problem, don’t complain about it. To find the solution, be curious and wise.

I know it's me that needs this moment. Your hand to hold my heart still cares. A thought I will hold when I wake in the morning, when I turn to you and you're not there.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.