I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.