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.

Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

I didn't think it was possible at my age, honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.