I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10 - 11 years old.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

I want to live a full life - period.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

The best of a human being is still a human being.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.