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

At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.

It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

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'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.