Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

I am addicted to any facial product that's anti-aging.

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.

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

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.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.