As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.

I like to discover new things.