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

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

Years are not important, my dear.

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.

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

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.