I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

One thing can make many other things happen.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.

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].

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!