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 came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

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 love the hip-hop nation.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I like to do all kinds of 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.

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 love science fiction.

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

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

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?