“You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.”
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I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.