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

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.

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.

I went to public - I graduated from publics - Westchester High. I'm a product of LA Unified.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.

An' I learned about women from 'er.

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

I had a million-dollar arm, but I wasn't thinking enough about how to be a pitcher.

The fears we don’t face become our limits.

I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.