In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter..

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse..

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes..

When history calls, history calls..

Thankfully, the love of those around me helped push me forward..

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl..

The only thing I was any good at was music..

To be adored is something I recommend..

I'm constantly being visually stimulated..

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make..

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work..

I am at my best when I am scoring..

Every decoding is another encoding..

Everything was believed except the truth..

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of..

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing..

I was physically abused and I retaliated..

Meow, Meow, Motherfucker..

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules..

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose th….