It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow.

As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.