By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.
I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.
Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.
Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.
Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.
At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.
Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.
There's a movie called 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age,' where I'm playing the King of Spain. It's a small role, but it's really, really interesting, the way I constructed it.
When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.
I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
