Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
When you're up on stage, especially being a female guitar player in a male-dominated field, if they just see you're into it, and it's your passion, and you're just giving it your all - it's not, like, an accessory - then it's all cool.
Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
Records are meant to be broken, I guess.
I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, 'Yeah, you can do this.' I wanted to direct 'Six Feet Under,' and no, they didn't let me.
I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
I've gone from the edgy girl to the girl you call for H&M and L'Oreal, which is something neither I nor the myriad agencies that rejected me when I tried to get signed could have predicted.
I was a poor kid. I grew up watching film and television but primarily television. And I graduated high school, and I knew I wanted to go to college because nobody in my family had. So I was like, 'I'll go and be a theater major.'
I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.
I always prided myself on trying to break the stigma of the 'dumb jock.'
Anything is possible for women, including being a presidential nominee.
When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.
It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.
It's 2015, and I'm the first female coach in any of the major sports. That's ridiculous!
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Debbie Allen and Regina King inspire me.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
