Rachel True Inspirational Quotes (7)

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.