Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.
At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow. '
We sometimes get lost in a bubble. . . when you get to a certain age you're always thinking about the old days and how it wasn't like that then. Well, yeah, that's great and it's very nostalgic and all that, but actually the world has moved on.
But then when you go through the process of making the film and you sit in the cinema two years later and your jaw hits the floor, it's quite sad in a way because you're looking at yourself - facially anyway - and see the way you looked when you were 20.
I went to the audition for a laugh and got the part for the way I walked down the corridor. There's no justice is there? [on getting a role from an audition
I think the difference is that Angelina didn't need any CGI enhancement and I did! You can't really think about some things too much, you just get on with it and do it. It's about the way you move and the way you sound.
The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.