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.

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.

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.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.

If you love a bird don't hold it too tightly or you'll soon be nursing a broken heart.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

I like to discover new things and I'm always testing new apps.

I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

If I didnt promote Joker, then who promoted

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.