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.

My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the bushes and from behind cars and who knows where else, besieging these children just to get a photo.

I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

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.'

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.