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.

Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.

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

You win an Oscar, and immediately people ask how you feel. So you don't have time to actually feel anything because you have to generate a response. And then some of the feelings you have are so intimate and visceral, words don't really do them justice.

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 had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

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