I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.