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Glenn Close Says Katherine Hepburn Quote Inspired Her To Act: “Never Looked Back”
Glenn Close recalled seeing Katherine Hepburn appear on an 'The Dick Cavett Show' in 1973 while painting scenery for her school's theater.
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. Close recalled she “went straight from college to my first job on Broadway the fall that I graduated,” adding: “Then I did theater for six years before I got into my first movie, which is The World According to Garp, and basically have never looked back.” Hepburn, who won four Oscars for Best Actress in Morning Glory(1933), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner(1967), The Lion in Winter(1968) — for which she tied with Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl — and On Golden Pond(1981), died at age 96 in 2003.
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