I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.