Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.