Pia Zadora
Pia Zadora
Pia Zadora is an American actress and singer. After working as a child actress on Broadway, in regional theater, and in the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, she came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring role in the highly criticized Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year and the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth4 May 1954
CityHoboken, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
One of the themes of Butterfly is incest. Before now, I don't think people could deal with the subject. Now that there have been exposes in major magazines and on television shows, and several films, the subject is at least more out in the open.
I'd like to keep going, to keep exploring. It's like anything else there's no way you can reach any kind heights or potential in your first film.
I was thrilled with the nomination, but I didn't want to go to the ceremony. I hated the idea of sitting there smiling and not winning.
I certainly feel more comfortable onstage because I've been doing it for seventeen years. But I do feel like it's my home, when I'm on the screen.
A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.
Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.
I don't consider myself a sex symbol.
You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.
I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!
I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.
Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and I'll go as Pia Zadora.
When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.
The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.
I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.