I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing. I am finding new ways to allow myself to soar beyond the parameters of what the writers have written. My key is to commit, and love your character.

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My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day - even if someone's not paying you to do it. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.

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Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

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I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

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I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

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I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'

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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

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There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

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In my culture, my mother's sisters are also my mother. And my father's sisters are my mother's, too. So I have many mothers. My mom has a fierce love for her children. And she's known to say things like if you die I'll kill you.

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I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

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You can never lead unless you follow.

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I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

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I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

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Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?

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When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

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Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.

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We're living in a time where we want to be entertained but I think part of what people are looking for, that they don't even know they're looking for is to be uplifted in many ways.

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I had to work from a young age.

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I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

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I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

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As human beings, when we're young, we're not jaded. As we grow older, we begin to take on ideas of our parents, family of origins and that changes us. We become less fluid sometimes. So for me, I look for roles that are uplifting in many ways - no matter what the race or color of the role is. I want to go beyond that and try to share what I think my gift is and that is we all have this gift of choice. We just don't sometimes realize we have that choice.

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