To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize. So if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do. When I open projects, maybe something will appeal to me. I think I'm not opening them because I don't want anything to appeal to me right now.

I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else.

You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.