When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

Years are not important, my dear.

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

I'm kind of a recluse.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

I love people. I was born loving people.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.

Advice after mischief is like medicine after death.

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.

An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all! -

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.

It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out a way to do it on stage.

How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There's a tangible score.

Do not doubt thyself, have faith in thy soul.

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.