Sanaa Lathan

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.