I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think we are. There’s this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, nothing gratuitous.