Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creat….

I'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with her work, and beats herself, and ….

For me, I am constantly forcing myself to evolve, because, I think, to stagnate creatively - there's a certain death that happens with that. Because ….

Every human being has a dream. I think what's special about the American Dream is that it implies, given everything that's happened with the history ….

I think it's absolutely essential to encourage creativity. I think we come in as these wide-eyed sponges, ready to create and absorb and evolve, and ….

Rise above the way society is going to see you and society is going to see you at the absolutely bottom of the totem pole because not only are you fe….

You feel the communion of the collective consciousness in that moment when you're on stage doing something and the audience is absolutely with you. A….

I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on..

A doctor can be a doctor today and they will be a doctor tomorrow. But an actor, well you're not working at anything right now, whereas the doctor is….

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway..

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not….

I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can about the world you live ….

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That….

I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So any time I get a chance to do a little comedy, that's also a ni….

Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing..

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home..

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room..

I think in the end there is one ultimate goal with all my careers, and that is, as a performing artist, you want to explore the deepest, most truthfu….

I think it comes down to the type of personality that the performing arts seem to attract. And that's outgoing, very sensitive - sometimes incredibly….

I played Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music and everybody's like, "Well she wouldn't have been this and that, she shouldn't be playing it." Well I'm….

I'm taking opportunities as they come; I really am. Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me ….