You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.

If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

You can not be successful without confronting rejection.

You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

In short, we can only learn from our "betters".

Passion, patient, perseverance and persistent are four keys to great achievements.

In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

‎Old enough to kill means old enough to die

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.