As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black

My main form of exercise is my bike. I dont have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

Love slowly like a ship full of flowers.