It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home
Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out. . . it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [. . . ] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.
When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.
That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are.
You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.
Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.
I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.
I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.