I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

By 1964 Goldie Hawn ran and taught in a ballet school having dropped out of American University where Goldie Hawn was majoring in drama. She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999) a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit. 1990s

Hawn's career slowed down after leaving Hollywood in the late 1980s but revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson.

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21 1945) is an American actress film director producer and occasional singer. She is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson.