An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

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

. . . what I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone.

I told her her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.