All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.