You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.

I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

Sometimes when you don't care, people are attracted to that.

You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.

I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!

I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

It matters just as much what to do, whether people hate you or love you

Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.

She is one of my best friends. Why I've known her ever since we were the same age.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

Attitude makes the woman, darling!

Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.

There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.