Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. And I'm not willing to stay somewhere where I am really not happy. And I am not willing to pretend I am for the kid's sake or so that I don't have to go through another public humiliation.

I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.