I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

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

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.

And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.