To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

No woman's getting hired because of her potential. I hope that we can invest more in female potential.

You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.