I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

I'd like everyone to imagine a world where you get a job as Tom, and then the next day you're Tina. Imagine you're in the world where you love what you do, but people say that you can't be who you are.