I Like To Do All Kinds Of

Everyone Else Can Do Violence. You Know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, They Can All Do Shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger Can Kill 10 People In One Minute, And They Don't Call It "white Exploitation." They Win Awards And Get Into All The Magazines. But If Black People Do It, Suddenly It's Different Than If A White Person Does It. People Respond Differently Because People Come From Different Places.

I Don't Believe That I Should Just Do A-movies, I Just Do The Work As An Artist.

I Was Able To Be Distant By Portraying Another Person, Another Character, If You Will, And I Found Myself Not Stuttering And Not Having Anxiety Attacks When I Was Portraying Another Soul, Another Being, And I Found Comfort In That. I Think Many Actors Do, Playing Someone Other Than Themselves.

I Never Thought I Was Pretty. I Couldn't Even Put On Eyelashes Or Makeup.

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.