The THING that cracks me up is how these reality CHARACTERS start out thrilled and excited just to be on TELEVISION, and how they MOVE to thinking they are as BIG as the Friends.

The HARD TRUTH is that there are people who believe they're WRITERS and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't MAKE it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.

I take TWO hours to GET ready. I BELIEVE in the POWER of make-up.

The pedicure is beside the POINT - the rub is all I CARE about. And not just my feet, my calves and thighs. There is nothing BETTER, except maybe a scalp massage.

I see MANY black males grasping for some THREAD of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic ABYSS. That MUST be very frightening.

I can't be LIKE, 'This week I'm going to be a musician, and NEXT week I'm going to be a mom.' It has to be a LITTLE BIT of everything, every day, all of the TIME.

I THINK everything benefits from a LITTLE COMEDY. The WORST thing to me is to see a great DRAMA or a great thriller with no laughs.

The scary THING is that PLAYERS have a one-upsmanship about money; they SIGN a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don't like it. I don't like that. I don't begrudge ANYONE money, but it disrupts the football TEAM.

Every day of my LIFE I WALK with the IDEA that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the FACT you are black, and most blacks don't get to that POINT.