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.

Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! — It may be you are losing your soul.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether its being done to him or by him.

'Eight-Legged Freaks' runs out of gas scarily fast - its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

Both my parents are first-generation success stories.

There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves.

It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.

In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.

Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.

When we started 'Perry Mason,' we thought it might go a year.

I've done movies that have mostly feminine characters and elements, and I think that both 'Heathers' and 'Truth About Cats and Dogs' are, in their own weird ways - they're different ends of the girl movie spectrum, but they're very much centered around the female characters, and I like those movies, and I like working with good actresses.

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.