[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

Happiness is the most important thing.

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

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.