My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.

I have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids.

It's a melting pot southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music and it's pretty amazing.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it moving on.

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50 Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers and he managed with amazing consistency to alienate most of them.

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York saw a lot of amazing dresses.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool amazing person that I wanted to be.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think 'I'm on fire I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.