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

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

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

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over stitches, because it had been repaired so many times. Once I put it on, she told me that it belonged to an actual slave woman. My heart just stopped. Each one of the stitches had a story, you know. Just recognizing this period I was going to be dancing with was a "come to Jesus" moment.

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