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 favorite films are when all of the technicalities are so seamless and so well done that I'm not thinking about them - you're able to go full-on into the story versus talking about edgy this moment was.

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.

You know how theres always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? Im not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.

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.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.