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1. Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices — today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
2. The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
3. I’m going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can’t do film. I’m not talking about actresses; I’m talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so… it’s sinful, it really is.
4. I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.
5. Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.
6. Another thing that’s pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
7. I spent much of my life hiding.
8. I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
9. When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
10. Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
11. There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who’ve had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
12. Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.
13. I don’t use ‘always do this,’ ‘never say that’ and I never give advice because I’m not the end-all, be-all authority.
14. I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.
15. Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
16. While traveling around the world, I’ve had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I’ve learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as ‘normal’ — everybody’s different, and that is the essence of their beauty.
17. Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!
18. I’d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
19. Beauty has a lot to do with character.
20. Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.