The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.
Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes.
When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy. '
Every time you enter into a job it's a whole new universe. There's a new language with a new power structure. If you are in an all Black cast its a different dynamic, the same with an all male cast or a crew that is mainly women.
I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
It's not enough just to be in a panic. We don't have the luxury to be depressed about Trump. We have to look at issues like health care and the price of pharmaceuticals, the $15 minimum wage and things that actually make a huge difference in a lot of people's lives. That's feminist.
The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker.
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.