You Can't Control How Other People See

When You're 16, 30 Seems Ancient. When You're 30, 45 Seems Ancient. When You're 45, 60 Seems Ancient. When You're 60, Nothing Seems Ancient.

When I Was Doing Shakespeare And I Had Spent A Lot Of Time And Effort In Trying To Become A Great Shakespearean Actress. That Was How I Started My Career, Was In The Theater Doing Shakespeare. And My Ambition Was To Be A Great Classical Actress. That Was What I Wanted More Than Anything. So, I Really Pursued That In The First Four Years Of My Career. And It Was An Uphill Struggle. It Really Was. Shakespeare's Difficult And Shakespeare In A Big Theater Is Even More Difficult. So, Anyway, It Was A Struggle For Me.

Los Angeles Is Hollywood And Hollywood Is Hollywood Blvd. It's The First Thing You Want To See. It's The Only Thing Really That You Know About As Far As Los Angeles Is Concerned. And So You Go And You Look At Joan Crawford's Hands And Feet And The Whole History Of American Filmmaking Is Encapsulated In That One Little Area On That One Street. That Street, To Me, Has Always Been The Street Of Dream.

I Feel The Written Word, Poetry And Literature Is Just One Of The Most Beautiful Things That Human Beings Do. So We Have To Fight For It.

I've Been Working Every Year Since I Started Acting, And I Got Many Awards Before I Won The Oscar For 'the Queen.'