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" Hair is an issue for most women, and after washing, blow-drying, flat-ironing, curling, braiding, twisting and spending the time and money on it, who wants to mess it up by sweating and having to do it all over again? "

Nicole Ari Parker

Hair

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" Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them. "

" I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasn't like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The school's piece de resistance is college prep - it didn't teach you how to audition for a TV show. "

" One good step breeds another one. "

" If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred. "

" I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to. "

" I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe. "

" If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it. "

" I think 'Soul Food' had the biggest impact on me because that's where I was really able to shine as an actress and because I also met my husband there, and that was a huge turning point in my personal life. So, that show will stick with me forever and ever and ever. "

" I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director. "

" My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son. "

" Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children. "

" There are so many things that go into a surgical study. "

" I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist. "

Nicole Ari Parker

Best Friend

Best

" My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path. "

" I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type. "

" Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home. "

" Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen. "

Nicole Ari Parker

Think

Inclusive

" I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse. "

" All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up. "

Nicole Ari Parker

Want

They Say

" Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband. "

" God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self? "

" Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility. "

" I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.' "

" Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me. "

" When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community. "

" You shouldn't marry unless the both of you are on the same page on a lot of things. Life is going to deal you blows, and you have to be together. Your values and priorities have to be on the same page; otherwise, it won't work. "

" I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes. "

" We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine. "

" You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired. "