When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

We should be talking about celebrating our differences, understanding that those differences make us richer and stronger.

It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they don't share the same rights of those who are consuming the fruit of their labor.

Everyone is different, and so I don't want to repeat anyone else's career. I want to do mine.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

The acknowledgement of my family members be it my daughter or my son means a lot to me.

I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.