Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.

To make lips look naturally pink, I put on red lipstick, wipe it off, and then apply clear gloss.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.

I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me.

If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.