Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after 'Far From Heaven.' I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term. ”

Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes! ”

Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor. ”

Every job I've ever gotten has transformed me in some way as an actor. ”

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way. ”

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow. ”

I would love to do really great work and for women who are marginalised to see me as an inspiration. ”

As an actor, every opportunity, every role, everything that I do is an opportunity to have someone have a human experience with my work. I don't just want it to be about a cute wardrobe and a high paycheck. ”

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them. ”

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it. ”