Quotes by Nicole Ari Parker

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiigs from Saturday Night Live or Bridesmaids. Quirky, off the beaten path.

I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasnt like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The schools piece de resistance is college prep - it didnt teach you how to audition for a TV show.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

Were all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonalds. We cant make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

I think Soul Food had the biggest impact on me because thats where I was really able to shine as an actress and because I also met my husband there, and that was a huge turning point in my personal life. So, that show will stick with me forever and ever and ever.

Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and Im thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

Every parent knows this moment in a childs age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because its the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. Its such a responsibility.