Being a growing entertainer, period, you're going to always have struggles. I'm still trying to learn how to even perform right onstage.
Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.'
Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
You could fancy what you'd like, but as a woman, my mother always raised us to believe in ourselves. I am very grateful that my mother brought me up that way.
I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.
I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
My mom used to call me 'Oprah' because I was always in a corner crying with somebody. I've always been attracted to storytelling around women's lives.
I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.
I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle.
It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people.
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.
I'm a binge-watcher!
The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.
If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.
I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.
All religions have always hated females.
Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.
However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.
I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
Family is always first.
Since high school, I've always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.
I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
I think always having somebody that you trust and you know can help in the communication, that is very important.
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.
I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
I've always loved the infield, because I came up as an infielder.
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.
I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.
