I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.

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

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

There are so many things that go into a surgical study.

Between the kids, the jobs and everything, no matter what color you are, cardio is probably not on the top of your list.

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.

I breastfed Sophie for 14 months and Nicolas for 11 months.