My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

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.

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

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.

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.

When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

We must take our friends as they are.

I didnt want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!