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

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.

I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

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

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.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.