What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.
I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.
I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.
People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.
I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.
The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.
I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.