European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

I've always had that going on: "I can't," and then I do, so the voice says, "Well, that was an exception!" It's a tug-of-war between two voices: the one who knows she can and the one who's scared she can't.

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

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.

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.

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.