I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

The only valid starting point is to understand what we all share - we have to find what we can all agree on.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic.