Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.
I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff.
I am capable of batting at No. 4, from where I can build an innings. I have performed the role in the past. I have also been coming later down the order and donned the role of a finisher.
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.
I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.
It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.
I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.
For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.
I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.
I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!
I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.
I am not an insecure person at heart, but I am also aware that I am not as good looking as an actress is expected to be.
I am quite an insecure person, and I think that, like any director, if I'm asked about my vision for a piece, I feel very vulnerable.
I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.
You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.
