For me, after emotionally intense roles, I'd need to take a step back because then there's the promoting of the film which is another job in itself.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

sometimes forgiving someone it's not because he's really sorry and deserved it, but because we were worthy of tranquility.

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

I am never going to write about dogs again. You can write about Islam, you can write about sexuality, but no, not dogs.

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

Whatever the future holds I'm not really sure.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

Wherever we are and whatever we're doing, we're either conscious, or we're not.