My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!