I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

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

I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous actress played Rose, but when she first came on the stage she was mad. You could just see it. She was all, "Troy stop!" So by the time you get to the revelation scene, I didn't think she loved him, so there was no loss. I think that the real tragedy and the real drama or the thing that makes you lean in is to see the love, to see the commitment. To see the fact that Rose is invested in this marriage no matter what.

It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.