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I remember very clearly my own first conscious attempt at acting. I was six, placing my mother's half slip over my head in preparation to play the Virgin Mary in our living room. As I swaddled my Betsy Wetsy doll, I felt quiet, holy, actually, and my transfigured face and very changed demeanor captured on super-8 by my dad, pulled my little brother Harry to play Joseph and Dana too, a barnyard animial, into the trance. They were actually pulled into this little nativity scene by the intensity of my focus, in my usual technique for getting them to do what I want, yelling at them would never ever have achieved and I learned something on that day.
我很清楚地記得自己第一次有意識地嘗試演戲的情景。那時我六歲，把媽媽的半裙罩在頭上，正準備在客廳里扮演圣母瑪利亞。當我抱著我的洋娃娃，我感覺安靜、神圣。事實上，我容光煥發的表情和不同往常的行為被父親用八毫米的攝像機記錄了下來。我還把弟弟哈利也拉進來扮演約瑟，也拉來了小動物達納。他們被我的表演迷住了，我的專注把他們帶入了耶穌誕生的場景中。這就是我想讓他們幫忙時常用的小把戲，跟他們吼叫是沒有用的。而且那天我還學到了一些其他經驗。
Later when I was nine, I remember taking my mother's eyebrow pencil and carefully drawing lines all over my face, replicating the wrinkles that I had memorized on the face of my grandmother whom I adored and made my mother take my picture and I look at it now, and, of course,I look like my grandmother then. But I really do remember in my bones how it was possible on that day to feel her age. I stooped, I felt weighted down but cheerful, you know I felt like her.
之后，記得當我九歲的時候，我拿起媽媽的眉筆，仔細地照著我曾記得的外婆臉上的皺紋，在自己臉上畫上了和她一樣的皺紋，畫了一臉，然后讓我媽媽拍照留念。今天當我再看到當年拍攝的那張照片時，當然比起那時，現在的我更像那時的外婆了。但是我從骨子里記得，當時我是如何感受到了她的年紀。我的背駝了，身子也感覺到沉重而向下墜，但是我卻很高興，因為，我覺得自己模仿得很像外婆。
