Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

I love to do Pilates, boxing and even just going on a run. I do cardio twice a week as it's important for people who want to eat lots like me! I do Pilates ones a week.

Procrustes was an editor.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.