Olivia de Havilland: [acceptance speech on receiving the Legend award] Lots of lovely things have happened to me in my long life, but I never dreamed that I would ever be designated a "legend". To begin with, I always thought you had to be dead to receive that distinction, but Premiere magazine has proved me mistaken. And I cannot tell you how delighted I am that it has dubbed me a legend. There have been many women who have become legends in past times, all of whom, I like to think, are together in the great beyond living in a beautiful palace of gold and crystal. And when my time comes to ascend to the upper realms - we hope that is the direction in which I will go! - I shall expect to find at the admissions desk an invitation to dwell with them, and if I should not find an such an invitation awaiting me, I shall storm the gates! And if these should suddenly and violently be thrust open by an irate and imperious Queen Elizabeth the first - looking strangely like Bette Davis - demanding of me my credentials, I shall tell her, on September the 14th, in the year 2004, I was designated a legend by Premiere magazine! And then I shall say to her, and who may I ask are you? I'm so pleased. I thank you, again and again. Love and kisses to all.
