"There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort."
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"I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script."
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"For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job."
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"I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will."
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"As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged."
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"Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us."
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"As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script."
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"I do believe that we're all God's children."
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"Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in."
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"Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things."
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"You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people."
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"I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me."
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"Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles."
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"The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me."
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"You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken."
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"I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch."
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"I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting."
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"I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television."
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"I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire."
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"Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't."
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