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

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

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.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.