New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.

The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

I've always loved a challenge.

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."