At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.