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When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns.

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.