It is much easier to fight through this thing called life with someone, as opposed to fighting alone. I absolutely want to be a wife and to come home to somebody who I know adores me.

I learned from my mistakes, I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences and I've done that.

Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther either.

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.

One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.

All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.