Glenn Close Says Katherine Hepburn Quote Inspired Her To Act: “Never Looked Back”
deadline.comMore than 50 years later, Glenn Close is recalling the piece of wisdom from a screen legend that got her interested in acting.
The Academy Award nominee recently described her “huge respect” for Katherine Hepburn and revealed how the late actress inspired her to take up the profession while she was attending Virginia’s College of William & Mary. “The thing I’ve always loved about Hepburn is she seemed to really know who she was,” Close recently told People.
She recalled seeing Hepburn appear on an The Dick Cavett Show in 1973 while painting scenery for her school’s theater. “I remember she said, ‘No regrets, no regrets.’ Fabulous,” she recounted. “She was so phenomenal, so herself.
So the next day I went to the head of the [theater] department and I said, ‘Please nominate me for a series of auditions.’ And from that, I got my first job that fall.
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