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.
My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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.
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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.
The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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.
I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
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.
