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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Years are not important, my dear.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I’m kind of a recluse.

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.