I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.