Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America.

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go and breathe and believe that it will come through.

I didn't love my hair when I was a child. It was lighter than my skin, which made me not love it so much. I was really kind of envious of girls with thicker, longer, more lush hair.

In the madness, you have to find calm.