When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.