I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself.

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.