I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

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.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we've lost a lot.

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

AB de Villiers reminds me of my young days, What a Player!

Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.