Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way. ”

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see. ”

What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job. ”

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad. ”

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.' ”

I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust? ”

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport. ”

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'. ”

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical. ”

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. ”