(On receiving a film festival award while pregnant) I am three times the girl I used to be. This is the second red carpet where I didn`t have to think about sucking in my stomach - because I can`t!
On choosing both serious and popcorn-movie roles: "There`s art and there`s commerce. You have to find a way to mesh the two. It`s important to do the little movies just for the love of the art. But it`s those big movies that take you around the world and ...
When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there`s no way you could be a good winner. And I hope to God I never see these people again. - on accepting her Razzie Award for Worst Actress
I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn`t fit in. Like I wasn`t as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
This moment is so much bigger than me, This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll... It`s for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett Smith, Angela Bassett, Vivica A. Fox... and it`s for every nameless, faceless woman of color ...
(On receiving a film festival award while pregnant) I am three times the girl I used to be. This is the second red carpet where I didn`t have to think about sucking in my stomach - because I can`t!
