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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns.

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.