Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

I am addicted to any facial product that's anti-aging.

I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don't think it's honest.

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

But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Even when I go shopping, I don't shop as a woman. The only time I shop is when I need something, and I'm in and out in less than 30 minutes, so I have no energy to look at 50 million gowns and styles and make sketches and think about heels. I'm not girly in that way. I'm relying on the stylist to do 99 percent of the work.