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

She was a genius, my mother.

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.

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

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.