It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

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

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!