Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'"

My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

All creativity is a work in progress

Horror make me awake and when I don't think about it but I read it it make me sleepy!

Do not believe all that you hear and see.Always check the original source of information.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.