What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

There's such a grace and understanding in the female persona when women have really come into their own. Part of that is to have children, and to be caring for those children, and not only in the care for them, but also in the nurturing and raising of them, they have to pass on their souls and their intelligence. And all those things can't be taught. It's something that, that in the essence of a woman, the essence of a mother, a mother knows!

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.