If you really want to be competitive in today’s market you have to be in movies that make money.

I don’t see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

My whole life I’ve had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

I don’t know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner.

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.

In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

I know I’m only one human being and I’m only making one tiny contribution and it’s nothing more than that.

You have to get the audience invested even if you’re doing something that they think is dumb, it’s kind of what these movies are all about.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

There’s a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

I’m learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

If you really want to be competitive in today’s market you have to be in movies that make money.

I’m not sad at all about turning 40.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I’m the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don’t have a cherry.

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We’re still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

I’m not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

What’s the worst that can happen? If it doesn’t do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

It is very hard to separate one’s self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

I’d like to be able to use Storm’s powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn’t fit in. Like I wasn’t as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever.

Beauty is not just physical.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that’s what is required of the industry today.

I think it’s always best to be who you are.

I wish all men were like dogs.

Anytime you put a movie out it’s subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.