When I'm working with strangers, I can get a little timid or scared. With friends, I'm willing to' try anything, because there's a lot of trust involved.
Usually cartoon characters stay a certain age; that's part of their appeal. Usually they don't grow up.
I wanted to be in a rock band. That's all I ever wanted to do.
I was in the 4th grade, and one day I didn't want to be in class. My father had just gotten a new Harley-Davidson, and he came and took me out of class. He said it was too beautiful to be indoors, so we stayed out all day.
My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.
With acting it was never a real passion or inspiration of mine.
Being in the body of an African-American woman, I prefer animation. I get to be everybody. I don't have to always be the white girl's best friend. I can be the princess. I can make an inanimate object come to life. I can be a little boy. I can be anything.
I was raised on an Indian reservation, and I didn't see a television set till I was 10, so it's not a part of my life.
The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.
I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.
A lot of political things would have to dramatically change in this planet for a woman of color to be carefree.
If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and each other's babies and pick each other up in so many powerful ways. We know to take care of each other, we know how to be friends.