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"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."
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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed."

"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."

"I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera."

"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."

"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"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."


"I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies."


"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."


"I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done."
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