No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution.

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.