For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.

Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.

You can't trust the internet.

I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.

I think I've always been a fighter in a healthy way.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.

I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

I never thought about doing men. Never.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.