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

[Denzel Washington] was rustling with something and when he came back it was with a word about loving myself and the body that I'm in because I was still going on and on about the weight thing. I just liked that, because what people don't understand is that so much of what blocks us as actors is so personal.

I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.