“I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.”

When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.

Let the ways of love be the ways of man.

We came. We saw. We conquered.

The rise of the women is the rise of the nation.

A beautiful city with incredible people. My thoughts are with you, Berlin.

Been blessed to work with many strong, beautiful women.

Gender Equality. Start from the top. Dare to put a woman in power.

Some states spend more $$ on prisons than on colleges. We have to make a change.

Blessed to meet so many great people everywhere I go. Can’t thank you all enough for the support.

In dark hours, true leaders rise.

If Love is too much to ask, at least Respect everyone, regardless of race, creed, sexual preference, bloodline, criminal history, power, or position.

If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.

For all the claims that we now live in a society free of racism, the tragedies that presently overwhelm us are a stiff dose of reality.

I am not a huge fan of surprises.

FBF to one of the most beautiful locations I’ve ever shot at.

Rise up. Register. Let your voice be heard.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents’ place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

There’s so much crap talked about acting.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

Acting is different all the time. When you’re on set, different films, or just even in between, it’s never the same. I think that’s one of the things I love about it.