When I grow up, I want to be an actress. But I want to be a legend of something.

My mom just told me the lines, because I didn't know how to read yet. I copied them and that's what I did.

There are people out there who have been trying to pursue acting, but they've said stuff like, Oh, we're not looking for anybody with your race. But now, we're all here to show the truth.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

[My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.

And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

If you want our world-known names, you can't have them unless you own the Nintendo machine.