Sally Kirkland

I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.

I think I'm more European in personality.

My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

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

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

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.

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.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

She was a genius, my mother.

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

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

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.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

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

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

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.

In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

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

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

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.