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.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency - I favor intensity.

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.

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.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.