My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.
You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.
There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's mettle.
I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
In hip hop, 'real' has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a time, if a rapper spoke about being gangsta, they needed to truly be that, or they were 'frontin.'
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.
There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.
I've always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.
There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
