I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore.

My pregnancy was amazing. I was happy that whole time, I felt good, I had energy, I was like Superwoman. I wish I could feel like that for the rest of my life, that's how fantastic it was.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

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

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career.