The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.
I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.
I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.
I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.
I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.
I think I'm not always what I seem.
I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying, hiding, or fighting. . . Unless we are taught to face our problems directly and work through them, the pattern of avoidance will be repeated; it can be a natural, accepted way to act.
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.