When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

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'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.