The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

Here's the thing - you can't be careful about what you pick because what looks like on paper is going to be a great script has often turned out to be a disaster, so there's no way to know what's going to work or to pick the right thing.

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

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.'

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.