“To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions.”

My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me.

The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work.

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

It’s so important to me. It’s my passion.

I don’t really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I’m more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.

A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose.

I want to touch people’s lives, and bring them along with me.

The worst reaction someone can have is, “eh.”

Nobody wants to watch perfect people.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don’t like

Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre.

And you hate her for a while – then you love her again.

I’d like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.

I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn’t sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me.

A bargain is something you don’t need at a price you can’t resist.

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it.

Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am not giving up.

That doesn’t mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

And its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

Only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism).

I’m only the messenger.

During the first show, I was like, “Wow, I’m onstage with Ms. Tyson!”