Never give up too quickly, but know when to let go.
I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.
It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.
I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they're compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.
'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
