“Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies.”

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don’t already exist, and see the world through someone else’s eyes.

The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, “How did you do this? How can we catch you?”

So everyone has their moments and you kind of learn to respect people’s space when they’re not in a good mood.

And that’s what everyone at Apple is focused on – pushing forward and creating the future.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.’

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.

She had to face the fact that she couldn’t protect everyone she loved. She couldn’t solve every problem.