Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

It can always get worse.

You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Life experience is the best teacher.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

There will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 - to false comfort in a dangerous world.

Im just a lipgloss, blush and mascara kind of girl. I like playing with a bright lipstick or a heavy eye... But not together!

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

You have to have passion for what you're doing.