With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.
When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.
What we're trying to do is to give people the opportunity to see that what they're doing is painful, empire.
Watch her on 'empire,' you guys. She's coming on 'empire,'.
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.
The rules are The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.
The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.
Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.
Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.
Right now we're seeing people enjoy the culture of america, the culture of the world, we're showing real life now.
Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.
People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down.
My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.
I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.
I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.
Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.
'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.
I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.
I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
