Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.

I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

We had a guy, a gentlemen by the name of Mr. Greenleaf who lived behind the house we were shooting [Fences], and he was like a part of the movie.He would come downstairs, and he couldn't hear well to say, "Ya'll want some coffee?"

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.