Jaz Sinclair

“I always feel like you can tell when somebody's motivator is love or power. You can tell almost instantly by how they do what they do.”

“As a Black woman you do have to work harder for everything. The world is not going to hand you things.”

“That's the scariest thing is when people feel like they're alone.”

“I remember my first play and it was 'Footloose.' I was High School Student No. 3 and we were doing the 'Cut Footloose' number and I remember looking out in the audience and feeling happier than I ever felt.”

“It's just funny to me how you think you know what life is going to look like and then it can just change so quickly.”

“I learned a lot from watching actors like Michelle Gomez and Richard Coyle and Miranda Otto, but particularly in the beginning Michelle because I've never seen someone so fearlessly wild.”

“New Orleans is a great city. My favorite part is the music. I love being to walk on the street and dance with strangers. It's really fun.”

“The more I get into this industry the more I kind of see that it'll take as much as you give. So for me, setting boundaries is sometimes saying no, and just being like, 'Actually I don't want to do that' even though people might in my situation say yes.”

“My career's been a slow and steady build, which I'm grateful for, because had it been this thing where I just exploded, I don't know that I, as a sensitive person, could have handled it emotionally.”

“I look up spells for the heck of it. I haven't done any spells but I don't think that they wouldn't work.”

“I just said, 'Hey, I'm waking up early and doing my hair before I come to set, and it's not fair that my white costars get to roll out of bed and feel taken care of and that I don't have that same luxury.'”

“I let everybody see that I'm a happy, normal person.”

“It's a wonderful thing to realize that you have infinite capacities and that you can really channel your own power and put that to good use.”

“If I had had a big explosion of a break right at the beginning of my career, I don't know that I was emotionally ready for that, as a human, just yet.”

“As women we're expected to be superhuman, especially black women.”