If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.

Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!

People see everything through a filter of them, of their own selves. And it's like, you can't be depressed because somehow that has something to do with me. And it's like - no, it doesn't. This is my brain. This is my body. These are my emotions. It's got nothing to do with you. You don't want me to get help for whatever reason you don't want me to get help. But I'm out here, and I need to get help.

I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.

Plenty of times, I haven't been able to wear certain clothes because they didn't come in my size.

I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.

I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.