Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

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My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

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I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

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When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

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Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

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My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

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I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

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I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

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My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

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The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

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