For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.
You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.
I want to be challenged, I want to keep challenging myself - whether or not it's changing yourself physically or just pushing yourself to a certain extreme. I get bored quite easily so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.
The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.
What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.
I've had friends who have come away who've said, "I shouldn't have become such close friends with the director. " You always want to get on with the director, but I personally prefer a relationship where you respect them - you get on really well with them, but they're boss, as it were. It's about trusting your director, for better or for worse. They're the one's seeing what's coming out on the monitors, so you have to try and trust what they say.
As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.
I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue. " So when I first started acting, I was more concerned with just being on a set and all of the woes of that, and I didn't really know it or understand it as a craft yet.
Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.