Sally Kirkland

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 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.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.

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

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

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.

I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.