Sanaa Lathan

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

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.

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.

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

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