Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.

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

My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love." I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove." And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

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 rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.