I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.