“I don’t admire how much a person has, I admire what a person does with what they have and I think that defines you most.”

You’re sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I’ve had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!

When the passion isn’t there, the drive isn’t there and it just doesn’t last for me.

My ability to adapt has always stood out. I’ve been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I’m familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.

Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don’t need money to smile or breathe.

I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in some way in my family.

My sister is 4 years older than me and I’ve always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

I could use my voice – my entire body – not just my looks, height, and physical expressions.

I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother,

Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally.

I always say that you are who you are and you can’t hide it.

If you can make it through the age of social media and come out with the same friends and lover, kudos!

Ethnic stories specifically need variety in content period.

The difference lies in the intention behind wanting money. Your reasons for why you want to create more money is typically why you’re ambitious to get it. You’re either genuinely ambitious or selfishly hungry.

Super-stardom doesn’t scare or excite me. It’s just another ingredient added to my world.

I’ve had friends get mad at me for not posting what they think I should post on Instagram on behalf of them or our relation.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn’t need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don’t understand.

Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There’s the two really tangible things that can stay.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn’t lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.