"You know I don't care if it's you know an intern or a full-time employee. I want to help them arrive at who they are or who they want to be in the world and that is one of the questions I ask them when I meet them. You know, who do they want to be."

“If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.”

“What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.”

“Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.”

“I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.”

“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”

“This is the thing, I'm not fazed by what people say about me because I know who I am and what I've been through.”

Source : "Love & Hip Hop’s Erica Mena Goes ‘Underneath It All’". Interview with Thomas C. Burrell, www.parlemag.com. April 30, 2013.

“Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.”