The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

A box of spaghetti can take seven minutes to cook, and you can make a sauce at that time with perhaps garlic, olive oil, and zucchini. Then you've got yourself a complete meal. The whole thing shouldn't take more than half an hour.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

One thing I tend to do is ask actors tons and tons of questions to try to get at what they're thinking but also to expose to them whatever box they've placed their characters in - to blow up that box so the journey can begin.

My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.

If you wanna be the comic relief in a big-budget movie, go to L.A. because there are five auditions in a week that you could hit up, and that increases your chances of getting those jobs.

I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.

My musical journey with A. R. Rahman is filled with personal milestones and realisations.

Once you're able to win, you're able to be more established as a player as well. It's hand in hand. And then you can show more parts of your game.

In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.

The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.