Actress Quotes

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

Charity should always be a constant.

'All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

When you see all the suits in the room, everybody in the room has on suits, you know, the women, too. We're not wearing dresses and chiffon and we're not as fun as we used to be.

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

It's incredibly hard out there for women of color.

It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she's just really tired. Of you.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

I want to live a full life - period.

I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'

I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

Athletes are very cool to me.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.