I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum.

I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

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.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.