My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

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

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.