All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

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

I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in "Fences"]; I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and in everything else, even her anger towards the end.

The internal sexism within womanhood is very ­predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be ­successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the ­formula that works. On an ­executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.

I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.

I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.