I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't…

- Aunjanue Ellis

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

- Aunjanue Ellis

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a dram…

- Aunjanue Ellis

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

- Aunjanue Ellis

Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

- Aunjanue Ellis

I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.

- Aunjanue Ellis

The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I t…

- Aunjanue Ellis

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not…

- Aunjanue Ellis