When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.

If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.