Doing the voice for something [cartoon] requires an enormous amount of energy and you really have to use your whole body. It's cool.

I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.

I always like an environment where theres lots of women and everyones different.

After Ive enjoyed a floral bouquet to its fullest, I drop a few petals in a bottle with distilled water to create my own soothing toner.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.

There aren't a lot of roles in period movies for black people. It sucks because I love that era. But, I love musicals. I love the show Glee, and I wouldn't mind being on that either.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

You're only as good as your last record.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

Everyone can collect quotes, it's a bit different to write 10,000 original ones.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.