Quotes from Adina Porter

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

Acting in a scene is easy.

I'm not one of those actresses that asks what's going to happen. I've never been. I just take the scripts, and I see what's given to me, and I go with it that way.

Incredibly lucky to be an actor at this period in history. I'm able to work in this business and look put-together - sexy, even - with natural hair.

All I wanted was to be an actor and have a happy family, and I did it. I still remember when I was doing shows in my parents' living room, and everyone had to watch me.

I've worked in this business long enough that I know people who complain, like, 'My character does this, and my character does that,' and I think it's just ego talking.

Less is more. You should wear earrings or bracelets, but not both.

Life is very short. Try to enjoy your 'now.' Many people think that when they become such-and-such then they will be happy. I personally don't think it is healthy to postpone your happiness. My message is, 'Enjoy the moment.'

My life guided me to express my full potential.

This whole thing about announcing stuff and sharing it online is a new phenomenon. Keeping things private is really, really easy and simple.

Growing up, I didn't know about the Japanese internment camps until I saw a movie of the week as an adult. I remember going, 'How come that wasn't covered in history class?' Moving to California, you run into people whose grandparents lost everything and their businesses and were put in these internment camps.

One-liners that must land perfectly in just the right nanosecond can be terrifying.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

Thank goodness for IMDB.

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

On slower days, when I was only needed for coverage or reaction shots, the set of 'The Newsroom' was better than therapy. Chris Chalk and I would debate life's dilemmas... until Sam Waterston would chime in and set us both straight.

You can so easily be dismissed as a thug or hysterical if you're a woman if you don't keep your rage in check.

Work is hard, but being a mom is harder.

I used to hate my behind, like every other black girl. I hated my behind. I hated my hair. I hated my nose because no one said it was beautiful.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

I'm a working actor, and I want to stay a working actor, and I want everybody happy.

I think that when I'm an actor, I get hired, and you say jump three inches, I'll jump three inches. I just kind of trust what the writer's vision is.

I thought, because of 'The 100' and 'Apocalypse,' that I knew everything about what life after an apocalypse would be - but Ryan Murphy and the writers of 'American Horror Story' have shown a whole other side of an apocalypse.

My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda.