Actresses

"I just find Christmas so overwhelming. So if the CBC poll was taken during Christmas, no wonder people feel that way."

"They teach you that as an improviser you should never censor yourself. Whatever comes to your mind immediately, you say it - you go with it."

"I've learned that if the human brain is told it can't have something, it then wants that thing more than anything in the universe."

"We tweak the jokes, and on our best nights, our audience keeps laughing. We don’t want to leave much room for them to breath."

"It’s been a joy to write material for such a specific demographic."

"The wonderful thing about awards I have come to understand is that the nomination itself is bigger than the award because it means that people recognised you. And I think in the work we do, in the conditions we do it, recognition is important."

"When death parks in your front yard and grief befriends you and sinks you into a story like this one, you give it everything you have."

"I observe women around me wherever I am. I take a bit of what I find interesting in every woman I meet."

"I wanted my own paycheque, I wanted my own house. I knew the world where I grew up in had limitations."

"We grew up where mothers often didn't work and depended on their husbands. I saw people borrowing R5 because the husband didn't leave any money and I told myself that wasn't going to be my storyline."

"The love I give my child at 42 is very different to the love a 22-year-old will give their child. I'm not coming into motherhood with the stress of my career, with financial difficulties."

"I've done it all - travelled, dined and partied - and now it's time for me to be a mother."

"i don't feel too old. I don't even think the word old exists in my vocabulary - you mature and grow up but ageing is about getting closer to who you are."

"I am excited to offer an interpretation to an African female character who could easily be lost in the cracks of society"

"I hope the character opens up a conversation that is often difficult to have around the experiences of women, violence and the ramifications of trauma."

"And I hate this narrative that older black women are threatened by younger black actresses - we are not."

"It's so wonderful to work with actors that if you give something, they're there with you."

"If we were politicians, then the audience would be our constituency. Our audiences are not stupid."

"My belief is this, you cannot diminish that which you did not create."

"What I know about my audience is that when I do good work, they will speak. My track record, of creating amazing characters speaks for me because that is what I do. I give my all to my characters, I re-write scripts. I make sure that I give my audience the truth and nothing but the truth."

"It's complicated, this industry. I don't fit into the scene."