The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'"

My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.

Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!

We also have the right to food in India.

Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again.