Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.

I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.