I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.
I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.
Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally.
Whats fun about being an actress is you change all the time.
A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.
You have to understand being an actress, and being an African American actress of a certain hue, I think that you have to be bold with your choices. Even when you're not bold with your choices, have people see it as bold.
I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!
I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world which are very specific and very evocative. Berenice, the lead actress, is my wife. She really followed the same path with me.
I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.
As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.
I think everyone's dream is to be an actress, but I never really thought it was going to happen.
The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.
I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.
Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.