First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

I was in a convent for a year.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts

I'm not too interested in books about India.

Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.