I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.