You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences..

I am nothing that isn't professional..

There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover ….

Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode..

I'd rather work to live than live to work..

When you love something, it never goes away..

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa..

When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you..

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by..

Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything..

I am a documentarian of what I do..

Do that which will make you happiest both now and in the future..

Beauty is everything..

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads..

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan..

Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone..

As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not ….

To me, love has always meant friendship..

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?.

Life eats life to live..

Everybody isn't everybody..