I think all of us in our lives feel like we can't make a difference or we can't make a change or it's too late or we're too tired or we're too scared..

If I ever have a family one day, everything else will pale in importance to that..

I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. A….

You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work..

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in t….

I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a 'gay wedding,' it's just a 'wedding'... It's not a ….

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism..

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students..

Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of f….

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you..

Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy to think about politics." B….

Study! Study ! Study! Get an education..

It is important to have friends and family around that I love and trust and who love and trust me..

I just want to keep having the courage to raise the bar for myself, and to keep striving for excellence in artistic integrity and public service. And….

Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves..

I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled wit….

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and….

I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school and that single sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women an….

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person..

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help….

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political..