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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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!"

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

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

"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 done with love, but I refuse to settle."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."