I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Me, sexy? I’m just plain ol’ beans and rice.

I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we’re fighting for more freedoms, we’re experiencing more freedoms won.

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

I love science fiction.

That’s what he was saying, the civil rights movement – judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It’s by my character.

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don’t make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

This whole beauty thing is something I’ve never comprehended.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it’s not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn’t then.

I grew up in a family where we weren’t allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

I don’t believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you’re going to be on the bottom.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

I like to do all kinds of films.

Well who’s black and what is a black person?

Oh, there’s going to be debate because you’re dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

I love the hip-hop nation.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

I’ve never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don’t.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

But I just loved looking at the clothes of the ’70s.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

Well, thank you and that’s for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she’s been, where she is and where she’s going.

It makes me forget that I’m not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

And as I reinvent myself and I’m constantly curious about everything, I can’t wait to see what’s around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.

I don’t know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don’t know their names, they don’t care about you, you don’t care about them.

It’s always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

I’m an Air force Brat and I’ve lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay – nurses, hairdressers, designers – people who just had a different way about themselves.