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

I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

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 was left with a fragile heart yet, I learned to embrace all my broken pieces.

Trust the patience. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of life.⁠

With all the changes happening around you, embrace your growth, and focus on your goals.

Embrace loneliness and reinvent yourself in the process of your dreams.

Embrace the journey, not the destination.

Embrace life’s challenges and let it transform you to the best version of yourself.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too. I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness.