You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.