And they were hard to break and they hurt my head. While I broke glass ceilings, they were the old-fashioned eight-foot ceilings. It might have been the power to get paid more than $2 million, but to get paid equally. My career could have gone a whole different way - I think I'm somewhat more than a sex star. I got to make a few movies, but mostly movies picked by men, written by men, sold by men. There were things in my contract - that I would supposedly have the power to choose my costar, which was never true, the power to choose my own films, which absolutely was not true because my career was short and sketchy. But at that time, there was no such thing.
I thought that I had the power of being a powerful woman in Hollywood. SS: As I grew older, I gained the power of stardom.
ALLURE: Has your idea of power changed over your career?
