I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

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

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.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore.