Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
There is such little tolerance for women on the national stage who don't agree with the hosts of 'The View' or celebrities who march with Planned Parenthood.
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.
