"A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks."

"Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts."

"Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white."

"I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl."

"Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now."

"If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do."

"People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head."

"I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do."

"I'm just going to live my life and be who I am."

"I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right."

"I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle."

"I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that."

"I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body."

"I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital."

"I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos."

"Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!"

"My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived."

"By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity."

"I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper."

"Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child."

"I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25."

"I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night."

"I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin."

"I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife."

"I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again."

"I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him."

"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."

"I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage."

"The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date."

"I wish all men were like dogs."

"After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?"

"And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today."

"Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism."

"I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters."

"I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that."

"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."

"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."

"I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession."

"I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen."

"I'm not sad at all about turning 40."

"You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love."

"I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance."

"The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings."

"It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding."

"I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check."

"The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry."

"Beauty is not just physical."

"I think it's always best to be who you are."

"The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it."

"I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right."