There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

There are timesWhen you may think that people are staring at you -They are.

When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.