After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.
I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.
I was the epitome of rags to riches.
I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.
There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.