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.

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.

I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

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.

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 wish all men were like dogs.

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.