I've been PART of task forces HUNTING the most evil HUMANS to WALK the FACE of this planet. I believe all of that was for a reason, because I love America.

Art is BUILT on the deepest themes of HUMAN meaning: good and EVIL, beauty and ugliness, life and DEATH, LOVE and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

We especially need IMAGINATION in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all LOGIC, but it is somewhat BEAUTY and poetry.

I cannot SAY whether things will get BETTER if we CHANGE; what I can say is they MUST change if they are to get better.

I WOULD say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no WRITTEN language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no HOSPITALS, not even NORMAL clothing.

The AMERICAN Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders WHOSE LIVES are the precise antithesis of the POLITICAL VALUES that define their image.

The system of NATURE, of which man is a part, TENDS to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with TECHNOLOGY.

I don't UNDERSTAND labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or BLACK or ANYTHING else. I've played characters that were WRITTEN for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as EVERYBODY else, and so far that has been happening.

I PRAISE LOUDLY. I BLAME SOFTLY.

I'm not the TYPE of PERSON who goes through all this effort for a MOVIE, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the BIG SCREEN.