If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

I think 'Soul Food' had the biggest impact on me because that's where I was really able to shine as an actress and because I also met my husband there, and that was a huge turning point in my personal life. So, that show will stick with me forever and ever and ever.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.