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.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Cousins are Sisters you never had.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

If you want to make something dirt cheap make it out of dirtpreferably dirt that is locally sourced.

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

I've never really sought out publicity.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

My whole life, I wanted to write. What validates you as a writer is the adulation of fans... and I've got that... 'Animal Review' is pretty well-known.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

I am just a regular dude who happened to make it. That's all I am, man. Maybe I was preparing myself in some lifetime to become this person, but I never thought I'd have every rocket shooting off at one time.

You know, 'Jake 2.0' had some funny things in it; I mean, I needed my sense of humor to do that part.

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.