Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

I don't really like horror shows, horror movies, or any of that. I'm really a lightweight, in terms of that.

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.