“This is my interpretation! So, I encourage everybody to really get comfortable with yourself. Stay true to your authentic self, and stop being worried about people.”

It’s a true testament to say that there are no small roles in Hollywood. People say, “Oh, I just said one line.” or “I was walking in the background.” Don’t deny humble beginnings.

I believe that the confidence, really being okay with myself, and really being okay with my gift have grown over the years.

Everybody’s talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.

I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.