I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

I'm lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.

I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.

If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.

I can't pay my [bills]. I can't go to work. My car is out of gas.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.