Fighting is 90% mental. There are people who run from the fire and there are people that turn around and run to the fire.
I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
Success isn't about winning everything; it’s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
I hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that, when a woman decides to hold off on gunning for a promotion because she wants to have a baby, other women whisper that 'she's throwing away her potential. ' That is when we're not supporting our own. Who are we to put such a limited definition on success?
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.
Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.