When I first came to L.A., I was plotting out my career choices as if I actually had a choice. Unless you're Brad Pitt, JOHNNY Depp, impossibly good-looking, or look like a freak, you have to be malleable and OPEN to everything that comes your way because that's what makes it possible to pay your MORTGAGE and eat.
Read MoreIf you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro GIRL in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a WHITE Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to IMITATE them; it was HIGHLY TOXIC, too, as we would learn.
Read MoreThe first time I went to Chicago was on a FAMILY road TRIP. We had our dog with us, and when we hit Chicago, I couldn't BELIEVE how MANY people kept coming up to us, telling us how handsome our dog was! He's a Rottweiler-Australian Shepherd mix, and he is a good-looking dog, but obviously Chicago is very dog-friendly.
Read MoreI never had any desire to be a film ACTOR. I never thought I was the GOOD-LOOKING MOVIE TYPE, which I assumed they wanted.
Read MoreI keep getting asked out by really young, good looking boys and really ugly lesbians. So, even if I WANTED to jump onto the tuna boat, I wouldn't because I'm not getting high-class babes that I should GET at this level of my CAREER. And I ALWAYS know the ugly ONES are serious and that the good-looking ones are goofing on me.
Read MoreI had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no SKILL, when this big, GOOD-LOOKING GUY came up to me and told me I COULD be great.
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