And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It's the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it's not a passive thing.

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.