It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

I believe there are two types of decision-makers - those who lead with their gut and those who make lists of pros and cons, and fully anticipate the consequences.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say thank you.

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott is amazing!

I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.

So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

If you got everything you wanted, you wouldn't have everything you need.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?

Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.