I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.
It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.
I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.
You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.
You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.
I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe.
In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
I feel a bit like when we came through the doors on the first day of rehearsals of that play, from that minute on, my whole life changed.
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.
We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.
