Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what c….

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it..

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work..

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself..

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression..

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create someth….

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again. When I was a ….

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power..

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas..

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked..

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything a….

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different….

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to..

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy..

Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world toda….

We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another ….

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities..

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down..

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear..

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication..

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist..