Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

No matter what people say outside of football, we don't work for money, we work for the love of the game and the money is something that follows.

I didn't know where film came from when I was under 10. I just thought I'd be a stage actress. I always knew money would be tough, but that never frightened me.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment.