Look whoever you’re talking to in the eyes. Don’t look away. Two reasons: you can tell whether they are lying. Also, so that they can see whatever you’re saying you mean and you can connect to that person...

When you come from an underprivileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of....

Waking up in truth is so much better than living in a lie...

Dreams are great. In fact, dreams are necessary in life or no one would ever go anywhere! But a dream without a goal, and without action, has no opportunity to come true...

For me, success in inner peace. That’s a good day for me....

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it....

I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I gravitate to things that scare me. They might be things that I don't think I know how to play. I like trying to find within me where this character may exist. Whether is it is a fictional character or not I am not motivated by that. It is more about how challenging it is. It is just so happens that the more high profile things I have done have been historical characters....

I never, ever do a film and just kind of move on. I think of them as children of mine, and you don't give birth to a baby and just leave it on someone else's doorstep. You see it all the way through college....

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing....

And what my mother meant when she said you can’t eat beauty was that you can’t rely on how you look to sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul...

You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you....

No matter where you are from your dreams are valid.”...

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction...

It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career....

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much....

Progress can cause profound suffering...

We Will Be Fine. We Will Absolutely Be Fine...

A proverb is an exploding atom of wisdom...

Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at the hazard of chance or inspiration, one word leading to another and each finding, in its turn, its rhythm and its place. No one was very sure any longer where the song began, or if it had an ending. It rolled out over its own length, like the movement of a serpent. It was as long as a life....

"Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty."...