You can go as far as you want to go.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

As they say, real legends never die. Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.

I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.

Being pampered is great, but sometimes I like to do those things myself because it's a little therapeutic and gives me some downtime for myself - and I need that.

More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.