Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

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.

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.

It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

Every new day is a sacred gift with new sacred grace.

No-one knows enough to righteously say something is impossible.“With God ALL things are possible.”Now tell me, what does that leave out?

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.