The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

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.

We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.