I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.

In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.

I feel like social media is a great thing. I try not to go on it too much.

I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

My goal is always, how do you get better?

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world

Hell is paved with good samaritans.