That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.

I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

I want to be a superhero, I want to be Spider-Man or Batman. Will you let me know if you have any connections? Let's make it happen.

Should she slam his head into the bar or toss her beer on him? Damn shame to waste good beer.

He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.

There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.