Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.

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.

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.

Every few words you speak, every little help you offer and every small advice you give mass up tiny miracles that can change someone's life forever!

Be the CEO of your own career.

Free men stick their necks out.

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

Anger and comedy are really connected.

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.