Quotes from Sanaa Lathan

As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.

I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

I'm loving the ingredients that are in Pantene, and it smells so good, and that's important to me. It has cassia and aloe vera. The cassia flower is really good for strengthening hair strands and the aloe is wonderful for moisturizing.

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.

There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda.

Sometimes when you don't care, people are attracted to that.

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