What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
