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" When you have a play, you have to be on every night. "

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" To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather. "

" As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie. "

" The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach. "

" I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role. "

" CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you. "

" You would never expect a black woman to be the hero. "

" Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy. "

" I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play. "

" Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game. "

" People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off. "

" I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles. "

" I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week. "

" My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress. "

" I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap! "

" If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about. "

" I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it. "

" I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish. "

" In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started. "

" When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film. "

" I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth. "

" Sometimes when you don't care, people are attracted to that. "

" I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda. "

" I think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You're going to want to tell stories about yourself. "

" I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything. "