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In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.