Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

