There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today?" I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from "Fences"] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already.

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.

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.

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.