I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.

I think training is helpful, but so is living a well-rounded life full of different experiences.

Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.

I would define success as setting a goal for yourself and then accomplishing it. I think successful people set out to do something and then just do it. They know before they accomplish their goal that they will, in fact, accomplish it.

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.

A dream role is a role that you can't even picture for yourself. Everything I've ever played I never pictured I would get a chance to play. It [has] gone beyond my wildest dreams. One thing I would love to do in my lifetime is a movie musical. I've wanted to do that since I was a kid. That's what made me interested in acting in the first place. I would do any type of musical, but I love the Harlem Renaissance era. I think a dream role in something that I probably can't see and I don't know when it's going to come.