I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess..

I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food..

There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people..

If you're prematurely born or if you have things happening when you're like a baby being born. If you have to learn how to walk right or if there's s….

Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business. You don't get to pull all th….

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps..

Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and f….

I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Found….

You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped..

New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bo….

For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It's like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whate….

For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thi….

There are different flavours of sexiness..

My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,'….

For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don't have to thi….

The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on my own, t….

When I want to push myself and do intense workouts, I do that, but I'm not going to do it because anybody thinks I should look a certain way. It's re….

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home..

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the no….

We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt..

So often, you don't get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you're on set..