“That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.”

People are just not impressed by me at home.

I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.

I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.

You can’t be hesitant about who you are.

I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.

It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.

Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.

One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.

And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.

I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother’s health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It’s the best!

That’s actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn’t work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other

When I was 13 years old, my mom had me start getting facials in my hometown of Los Angeles.

Books have always been important to me – my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.