I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.