As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way. She's proud of me for doing what I wanted to do, but at the same time, I'm kind of taking up where she left off.

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Things don't happen that fast in real life.

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

Sometimes you meet someone at an inopportune moment and it doesn't work out, but then you see them again five years later and you're in different places and it's a better time.