MY LIFE IN 10 Pictures

“I don’t know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.”

—Warren Beatty

“IT TOOK me ages to even think of myself as an actor,” Henry Warren Beatty once admitted. “For years I would see ‘actor’ on my passport and think, ‘God, this is odd.’” (As the younger brother of Shirley MacLaine, that’s saying a lot.) Yet whether it’s evolving from a fledgling TV actor on The Many

Loves of Dobie Gillis into a major movie star — or abandoning his playboy ways to be a husband and father, Warren, who turns 85 on March 30, has a way of easing into things. And it’s given him a unique perspective. “I’m old. I’m young. I’m intelligent. I’m stupid. My tide goes in and out,” he reflected. “You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know

whether what you’re doing is work or play.”