My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.