Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.