 Born ham, that's basically me. |
| I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies. |
| I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do. |
| I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me. |
| Normal is in the eye of the beholder. |
| An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything. |
| You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done. |
| That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. |
| Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good. |
| I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. |
| When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges. |
| It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do. |
| For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues. |
| The art of acting is to be other than what you are. |
| I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me. |
| And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy. |
| When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it. |
| You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck. |
| I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done. |
| When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. |
