I stay in tune with my family and God.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

Athletes are very cool to me.

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'

I want to live a full life - period.

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she's just really tired. Of you.

It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.

It's incredibly hard out there for women of color.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.