I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.