In my own life, there's no amount of success or money that's more important than your child being healthy and happy. There's nothing that can put a band-aid on that. There's nothing more valuable, to me, than your child.

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.

I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all, and get real down and dirty.