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#1. I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

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#2. If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

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#3. You know how there's always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I'm not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.

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#4. I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

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#5. My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

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#6. William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I don't believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; that's the only way I can make it believable for the audience.

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#7. My favorite films are when all of the technicalities are so seamless and so well done that I'm not thinking about them - you're able to go full-on into the story versus talking about edgy this moment was.

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#8. I admire fashion and I respect it greatly, but I don't necessarily follow trends. I never really have. I just wear what I like to wear. I really like colors, and there are some things I wear and don't care what anybody says about it being in style or not. I wear it anyway.

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#9. My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.

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#10. Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

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#11. I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

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#12. The big challenge is finding something new without changing completely what you've already done - going deeper into what you've already done and discovering new things while carrying out the same intention.

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#13. There are a lot of celebrities that I think can get a little bit distracted by the way that our society views celebrity. All of a sudden, the film becomes about, "Come see this celebrity!" I'm not interested in that. I want to see a story.

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#14. I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."

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#15. In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

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#16. I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist.

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#17. [In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that.

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#18. When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'"

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#19. My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

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#20. The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

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#21. I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

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#22. The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

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#23. I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.

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#24. I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.

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#25. Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

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#26. I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

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#27. One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!

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#28. Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

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#29. My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

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