My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.
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Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.
My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
One of the more surreal days I've ever had in the recording studio was Martin Fry teaching Hugh Grant his old dance moves. Showing him how to do the hair-flip and the point, and all these sort of trademark moves of his.
I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
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 working with Eric Close and J T Walsh.
I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.
I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.