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.

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 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.

When you love your neighbor, you won’t have problems with embracing them

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

Begin to take the initiative when you want to meet someone new. Be the one who steps forward first. Simply say hello and begin a conversation.

My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

Ultimately, I don't care if people decide that what I'm doing is real or not...as long as they understand it isn't EASY.

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.