“I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in orde...” — Louis Gossett Quote

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

I was at Woodstock. In the mud.

Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

I think things are chosen for us, we already have our paths.

Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.