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 no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

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