The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.

I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I’m afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what I meant to say was"I need to learn how to love myself.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

Acting's more of a business for me now.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.