Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

I learned from my mistakes, I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences and I've done that.

Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.

It is much easier to fight through this thing called life with someone, as opposed to fighting alone. I absolutely want to be a wife and to come home to somebody who I know adores me.

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther either.

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.

I’m scared that you’ll make me love you…and then you’ll leave me.

To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being!

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.

There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Did you get hungry and eat my colleagues?

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.