Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".