Quotes from Sally Kirkland

I think I'm more European in personality.

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.

She was a genius, my mother.

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.

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

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

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

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

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

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.

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

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.