Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

Let your playerhaters be your motivators.

How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.

I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'.

Leadership is an achievement of trust.

My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.