You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

I want to show audiences I can act..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences..

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….

I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers..

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

Be bold. You gotta be bold..

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health..

Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves..

I'm always geeking out about something..