“I’ve got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out.”

No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.

I’m not trying to do stuff for my kids necessarily all the time, but when you get the odd opportunity to do something for them that they could enjoy its cool.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

It’s been liberating to be able to play someone who’s a bada– or promiscuous, because that’s the opposite of who I am … It’s like a drug.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you’re doing.

The time I’m not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It’s all about the directors.

I don’t really have a problem with just wanting sex. Never have. Even when I was a virgin and wanted to marry the first guy who I slept with, I never passed any judgments about that. But now I’m done [with dating around].

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run things.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I think that people who don’t like animals tend to be selfish, but I’m biased.

As far as being married and what it means to me… it’s nice knowing that I have a partner in life and that someone’s got my back.

They’re probably not any more complex or interesting than their good, law-abiding cousins, and I’d always tend to see things from their point of view.

I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother,

However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don’t think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood.

I’ve always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I’m a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.