I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.

It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.

I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.