To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

I just think that the gifts that God has given me and the attention that I have, I just don't feel like acting is the limit of it. I just feel like there's so much more that I could do...And, you know, every day I wake up and I try to do a little more and I just want the world to be different and better because I was here.

The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.