I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

I think acting is really fully adapting - to your surroundings, to your emotions, to the people that you're working with, to being tired, to want to go home, to being lonely, to being happy. It's adapting for me, and trusting. Adapting and trusting, that's my format right there.

I know that I'm only as good as I am because of the things that I allow into myself and into my soul, because that's the stuff that I project back out.

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].

My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.