Anika Noni Rose

I went to grad school in San Francisco, and then left for New York City with my eye on Broadway. I had…

— Anika Noni Rose

We actors can't say every line as if it has weight, but what we want to do is be true to the…

— Anika Noni Rose

Athletes and actors do really crazy things, and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because…

— Anika Noni Rose

Regardless of whether or not the producers think that there are five other people waiting for the job, the one that is…

— Anika Noni Rose

Somebody came and directed a show at my high school. I approached it with sort of the sensibility - "Oh, I know…

— Anika Noni Rose

I remember seeing 'Snow White' and saying to my mother, 'Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?' She said 'Probably. Why not?'…

— Anika Noni Rose

I think what's happening in Hollywood is a direct reflection of what's happening in the world right now.

— Anika Noni Rose

I feel like if you are going to come to somebody who you don't even know on a worldwide platform, then your…

— Anika Noni Rose

I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!

— Anika Noni Rose

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

— Anika Noni Rose

I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved…

— Anika Noni Rose

I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.

— Anika Noni Rose

I loved Disney. 'Fantasia' was my first, favorite Disney movie. And it just kept going. I loved 'Bambi.' I loved 'Cinderella,' 'Lady…

— Anika Noni Rose

I've been in New York for 14 years. I would never leave for good. The city is so much more alive than…

— Anika Noni Rose

Very often the people who are shooting your film do not look like you if your film is brown-centric in some way.…

— Anika Noni Rose

I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do…

— Anika Noni Rose

I think the New York theater audience is very savvy. Sometimes you get newbies who think they're going to be watching Smash…

— Anika Noni Rose

I have a lot of friends who are in mixed race relationships who are gay. But I think that the reason it…

— Anika Noni Rose