I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

You can live vicariously through the characters you play.

Looks alone won’t get you that far. It may get you in the door, but there’s always somebody younger, somebody prettier. You have to rely on something else.