That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.

Don't let anyone tell you no. Do it with conviction, do it with passion, and you'll find a way

I like playing smart, savvy, sexy women -- because it's so not me!

Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.

People have a copyright on their own life.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.