“You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.”

I don’t write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

I never looked back there, but she was like, ‘Will you all just shut up!’ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‘What are you doing?!’ I was like, ‘You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.’

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t.

All men hate the nagging.

At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I love women with attitude.

If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.

If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.