The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

I'm an artist at heart.

...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.

I have made a personal decision NOT TO WORRY. This has tremendously contributed to my happiness!!

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else

When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that's when they are really in for their biggest surprise.

To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate

I am a charity campaigner.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.