“I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like “Wait, what’s happening?” so I Googled it.”

There are conservative people in all colours in America.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume

Her words are effortless in terms of their meaning and how she inhabits them.

When somebody recognizes me from the film – and it can be a wide range of people, which shows the power of film

So everyone making sure that I’m OK has turned what could’ve been a very scary, nerve-racking and lonely experience into a supportive environment.

The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away.

She’s been doing Trip to Bountiful for four months, and it still feels real.

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I’m known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.

For everything Obama stands for and the things he’s said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing

So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

It’s a surreal experience.

And you don’t want them to look at you in a negative light.

I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.

My intention is to do more films.

I had to say something. Kelly’s nomination would go against who President Obama is.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error.

There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,