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

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

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.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

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!

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

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.