“People are just not impressed by me at home.”

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.

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.