Adina Porter

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

“My kids are resilient, I'm resilient, and I guess I am an optimist.”

“Thank goodness for IMDB.”

“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.”

“I'm a bit of a wuss. I'll even watch, like, a Tom Cruise 'Jack Reacher' movie where, I mean, there's a lot of action, but the violence is no real violence, but I still hide my face because there might be violence.”

“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.”

“I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.”

“I know what it's like to do whatever you need to do to make sure that your kids are happy and well and succeed.”

“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.”

“I'm a mom... and I'm learning this being a parent, sometimes your child can be such a reflection of who you are. And I have to figure out when it is my ego that dictates how I parent and when it is what I think is best for my child.”

“Monologues are fun.”

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