You gotta keep the funny intact..

The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism ….

Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't pro….

What is wrong with you? Many, many things..

And that's all right with me..

Beauty is health. Health is beauty..

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all yo….

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing..

What do I think of Pussy Riot actions? The act can be extremely positive if it is an act to call attention to the fact that things in their country a….

The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevate….

I have this strength that comes from knowledge..

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude..

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle..

Are you making life or is life making you?.

(I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like th….

As you are, you see everything else..

Power is intoxicating..

You can't be what you can't see..

I'm trying to decide whether to be happy or sad. We have to be better than this or we will struggle..

My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is….

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me..