I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script.

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx!

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.