I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

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

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.

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.

Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't.

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. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.

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.