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The older you get, you always...

The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."

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One thing I've learned is be ...

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

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Our challenges make us unique...

Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.

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I don't think you learn as mu...

I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

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I was always a closet lover o...

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor.' And she said, 'Maybe not that.'

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I have always been very famil...

I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.

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I gotta go home and feed my e...

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

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Even in my music, I am always...

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

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You can't be from Montgomery,...

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

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We know longer live in a homo...

We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

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People who are overweight fac...

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

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I don't think that moms, with...

I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.

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You just keep moving forward ...

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do, and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

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People want to see more diver...

People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.

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Yes, you want to do studio mo...

Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.

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When my car broke down in L.A...

When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.

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We always think that we're go...

We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.

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Auditions make me nervous; an...

Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

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The most I like about cooking...

The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.

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At 21, you can live life with...

At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.

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