I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx!

I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

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.

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.

If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.