Sally Field: My first performance on stage was some scenes from Romeo and Juliet when I was 13. And I was truly… I must have been dreadful. I had no idea what I was doing, but it was so seminal, so incredibly important because — I wanted to speak about it today but I left it out. I had this magical thing happen to me. I had no idea where I was going and I didn’t know how it arrived, but I had this glorious out-of-body experience. I was on stage, saying words that I really didn’t quite understand. I had no idea of what a technique was or anything, and I simply floated away. I didn’t exist. There was no Sally — little 13-year-old Sally — on stage. There were hands and feet and a mouth, working and saying things, but they weren’t mine. And it is this blissful glorious high that I had early on in my life, and it is what has taught me and guided me forever, because when I lost sight of what on God’s green earth was I doing here, why was I doing this, why was I beating myself up, I remembered that moment. And my whole life has been trying to understand how to get back there, trying to own that gift, that ability that human beings have to float away to some creative place that is simply God-like.