We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

I tend to fight for something that I believe in.

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

I have so much respect for Sam [L.Jackson] that if I had questions about anything, I would call and ask him if he agreed with me before I brought it up with Craig [Brewer].

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.