Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.
But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.