“When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise.”

It’s been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of.

Sometimes as human beings, we’re so contradictory – we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves.

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who’s complicated.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

You don’t always have the time to do that. You learn very quickly, I think, how essential it is to come in with the strongest choice that you have.

That’s what I’m learning to embrace in television – not knowing what’s going to happen.

There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn’t in the way I originally thought it was going to be.

When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you’re waiting and waiting and waiting,

The courage to decide that I have a voice and need to do what I love. To believe that this opportunity is not wasted on me. To own the fact that I am worthy.

If you’re doing an indie and you have time, sometimes you can do take after take after take, but if you’re working in television on that filming schedule,

I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

There is a voice inside of my head that is trying to convince me that I’m not good enough and that I don’t deserve to be here in Hollywood. So courage is required.

There is nothing to fear from truth….Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

She’s not your unicorn. She’s her own mother fucking dragon.

Ultra-independence is a trauma response.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people’s ideas and thoughts and words, because I’m very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!