There are some people who are very powerful who I will never name, because I want to be able to work in this town.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.