"It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning"

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition"

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off"

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

"I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies"

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage"

"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents"