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

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.

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

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.

Home is— Where the heart wants to dwell, Where the mind wants to dance, Where the air is always pleasant, And where love is always abundant.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.

Dealing with effects, as a job it's great, but with Mythbusters, the stuff we've seen, the stuff we've absorbed over the years, has just been fantastic, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.