Alfre Woodard quotes:

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot.

And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

As an adult after college and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.

When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.

I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group.

Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.

I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.

I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.

I have always done what I wanted to do.

The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show!

I rather go to see a good play than be in one.