Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

I want to live a full life - period.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

I went to public - I graduated from publics - Westchester High. I'm a product of LA Unified.

Castes never meant that much to me.

Don't be timid when you pray rather batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.

When the family dies, the nation follows.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am.