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It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.
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I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.
Relationships change us and make us grow.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
Each role has its own different challenges.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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.
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
