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.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Wherever you are, wherever you go, be sure to spread the light.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

My fans are incredible. Don't you dare talk bad about me on my Instagram, because my fans will come out and they will eat you alive.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across.

What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

The French complain of everything, and always.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.