If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.

It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.