There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

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 know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

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.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

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