Diane Varsi

The very thing that led me to want to act was very mysterious, even to me. I thought there was a whole communal feeling in film. That the idea of film was to be a service of humanity, a means of communication. But the spirit was power.

Varsi was born in San Mateo, California, a suburb of San Francisco, the daughter of Beatrice and Russell Varsi.Varsi unsuccessfully tried to become a model and a restaurant hostess in her teen years. While in high school, she was called an oddball by her classmates. She often played truant from school to visit San Francisco and was therefore labeled a rebel. She dropped out of school in her junior year at age 15, failing in all studies and saying I was bored. I didnt like the social sides the cliques. Around the same time, she married an 18yearold man. Their marriage was annulled before her son, Shawn, was born.

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