Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

If you wish gain understanding, turn away from evil.

It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

When she orgasmed, she said his name. Twice. And didn’t it make him glad that even though he had no voice, his ears worked just fine. –JM

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Definitely being a mom changes your perspective on everything.

I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop

You can never plan what a song will do. I wrote Mr Pitiful song on a piano I paid $200 for and I definitely got my money's worth.

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.

I am someone who likes to stay positive.