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

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over stitches, because it had been repaired so many times. Once I put it on, she told me that it belonged to an actual slave woman. My heart just stopped. Each one of the stitches had a story, you know. Just recognizing this period I was going to be dancing with was a "come to Jesus" moment.

The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.