August 23 Birthdays

If you dont have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

I'm not as klutzy as I used to be. I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on-camera because I do them in my life all the time.

I didnt know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that Im in very good company with her.

When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, Will & Grace started up.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. Its never an issue for me.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

I eat nothing thats processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Any purchase is one for the future. If you buy a refrigerator, you are making a commitment to the future so that you have food to eat for the next ten years.

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore Im always pleasantly surprised.

Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. Theres something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief.

When youre a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. Thats where I want to be judged.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

They can kiss my rear end, if they can leap that high.

I'm having a kind of hard time keeping my head above water in this crazy business.