“That’s how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.”

So everyone making sure that I’m OK has turned what could’ve been a very scary, nerve-racking and lonely experience into a supportive environment.

The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away.

She’s been doing Trip to Bountiful for four months, and it still feels real.

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I’m known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.

For everything Obama stands for and the things he’s said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing

So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

It’s a surreal experience.

And you don’t want them to look at you in a negative light.

I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.

My intention is to do more films.

I had to say something. Kelly’s nomination would go against who President Obama is.

I assume Obama knows about stop and frisk, so this is not the person that should be the head of homeland security.

I was going to go to med school. My father’s dream was that all of his kids become doctors.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you,

Life is too short to do something you don’t want to do.

Some of them are wearing skirts that I’m pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

Of course, it’s always complicated to shoot a sex scene.

Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open.

Build health or produce disease in yourself.

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.