As human beings, when we're young, we're not jaded. As we grow older, we begin to take on ideas of our parents, family of origins and that changes us. We become less fluid sometimes. So for me, I look for roles that are uplifting in many ways - no matter what the race or color of the role is. I want to go beyond that and try to share what I think my gift is and that is we all have this gift of choice. We just don't sometimes realize we have that choice.

As human beings, when we're young, we're not jaded. As we grow older, we begin to take on ideas of our parents, family of origins and that changes us. We become less fluid sometimes. So for me, I look for roles that are uplifting in many ways - no matter what the race or color of the role is. I want to go beyond that and try to share what I think my gift is and that is we all have this gift of choice. We just don't sometimes realize we have that choice.

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.