Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.