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"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."
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"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."
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"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
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"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."
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"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."
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"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."
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"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"I was a handful growing up."
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"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"
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"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
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"I got an early education from television."
Education
"There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors."
Acting
"If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own."
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"When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act."
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"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."
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"My driving force is spirituality."
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"And I used to listen to a lot of jazz."
Jazz
"It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity."
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"We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together."
Family
"I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now."
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