I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.

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.

Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.