Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God’s way to human minds. But God doesn’t need explanations to exist.

I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

In Hilbert space no one can hear you scream.