“It just means I don't have to go far to get home from the premiere. My whole family is here, so it's wonderful. I can celebrate with Jersey for a change.”

“I love the message of the movie, which is that family is love. It doesn't matter if you don't look like each other. The love is what matters.”

We had a blast. I can't even remember having this much fun making a movie. It was challenging, of course, but it was wonderful.”

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.