My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.
Thats what I crave that diversity.
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.
I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.
Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.
I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup.
I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.
I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.
I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.
We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.
Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.
I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
I like to do all kinds of films.
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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'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.
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.
I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.
