You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

I was in a convent for a year.

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.

Celibacy is exhausting.

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.

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.