I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor.' And she said, 'Maybe not that.'

I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.

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.

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.