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“I don't mind to look older. I don't have this urge that so many people have that they've always got to look young all their lives. I think you should be the age you are and enjoy it... But if you want to have it, go ahead and have it, but take a good look before you do because, just maybe, you look absolutely beautiful the way you are.”
Source : "A Model Career: 'Grace' Goes From Runway To 'Vogue'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2012.
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“Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.”
Source : Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1838). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27”, p.574
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“I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.”
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“Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying”
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“New ideas must use old buildings”
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“Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.”
Source : James Rachels (1999). “The Elements of Moral Philosophy”
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“The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.”
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“I believe that, your art is like a time capsule for where you were at, where your mentality was at, at that specific or that particular space in time. A lot of times people want the same thing over and over again; I'm not going to give you that, I'm just not. So, I want my fans to continue to grow with me and let's take this journey, because it ain't gon' never stop.”