“I feel like they’re talking about someone else we both know.”

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.

I’m in awe of how grounded Ms. Tyson is and how her performances can be different but the same.

She’s pretty amazing.

She can switch up the delivery, but it’s still with the right intention.

That’s what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

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

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

I think L.A. is beautiful.

I grew up in New York and I’ve always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person.

I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

And I’m not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral – that can’t happen.

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.

We don’t tolerate terrorism.

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

Do something that’s not for yourself, every single day.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.