People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

Act smarter than you are and always know where your exit is in case you get into too much trouble.