The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

Happiness is the most important thing.

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV.