If You Say A Word Often Enough

We Who Are In The Arts Are At The Risk Of Being In A Popularity Contest Rather Than A Profession. If That Fact Causes You Despair . . . Pick Another Profession. Your Desire To Communicate Must Be Bigger Than Your Relationship With The Chaotic And Unfair Realities . . . We Have To Create Our Own Standards Of Discipline.

Each Person Has A Literature Inside Them.

When I Was A Kid, My Grandfather Said That "if You Say A Word Often Enough, It Becomes You." Thinking Of That Later In Life Gave Me This Idea That I Could Try To Become America By Learning The Words Of People From Many Aspects Of The Country.

When I Got Out Of Acting School, I Was Lucky To Have Gotten Any Job At All. A Lot Of People Hiring African American Actresses - It Was Right After 'roots,' And For Society, Not Me, It Was Great. Nice Richly Dark-skinned People Was The Fashion, And I Was Not.

I Would Love To Have Been A Documentary Filmmaker; I Just Didn't Have The Resources To Do That.