I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.

When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.