Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Lets just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

In general, I try to avoid anything that I'm in. I've been that way for awhile. I don't know why. You have to watch, professionally, the things that you're required to watch, but it's not something that I would sit down and watch, again and again.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

The unknown is always frightening.

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.