Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.