It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

I think you have to ask yourself, what is the point of the script? What is the script selling? Because all scripts are political, every story is political. It either challenges or reinforces some schism or stereotype. So what is the project going to say at the end of the day? What does it tell you about the world, or what does it challenge in terms of your world?

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

That's one of my little expressions. I never really studied acting so I kind of kiddingly talk about "building your circle" and "mooding up," because I really didn't learn any technique.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.