If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

People are just not impressed by me at home.

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.

Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

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 started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.