There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.

My regular school didn't know what to do with me!

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

I always feel like a goofy little kid.

Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun.

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody.

Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.