I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

I just thank god that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.