I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.
Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'
I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.
I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.
I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
I miss it if I’m not in it for any length of time; I don’t feel comfortable. I want trees and I want frequent rain.
Honestly...this is why I write. I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me. I write for my sanity.
I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.
Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.
I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.
Zakath stared at the floor. 'I suddenly feel very helpless,' he admitted, 'and I don't like the feeling. I've been rather effectively dethroned, you know. This morning I was the Emperor of the largest nation on earth; this afternoon, I'm going to be ...
I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.
The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
