Me Quotes
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I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
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I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.
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My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
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My mum wanted me to go to university.
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If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
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I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.
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Bowie's been a huge influence on me.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.
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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.
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The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
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Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.
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If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.
