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" I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character. "

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" Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants! "

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" I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book. "

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" It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast. "

" The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. "

" As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny. "

" If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy. "

" Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me. "

" I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television. "

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" I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.' "

" The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch. "

" The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown. "

" If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating! "

" Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be! "

" No person is just one particular emotion. "

" There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril. "

" If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents. "

" I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society. "

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" I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest. "

" Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things. "

" Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it. "

" It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot. "

" I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good. "

" We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts. "

" I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A. "

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

" I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch. "

" People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well. "

" To be silent is to be passive. "

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" Tough love is the hardest to give. "

" 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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